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"No, it is somewhere in the Indian River section, I believe. I don't know just where." "And do you really mean to say you can take us there?" asked Betty. "Oh, you're a dear!" "Uncle Stonington said he would be glad if I could take you girls," said Amy. "He got the grove through some sort of a business deal. He doesn't know anything about raising oranges, but there are men in charge who do.

The time spent in Lowell was not only to the great advantage of the company, but it increased also his own stores of mechanical knowledge, and in a direction, too, which in later years was of especial value to him. In 1837 the condition of the Stonington Railroad became such as to demand the continual presence and attention of the engineer. Mr.

His uncle, however, received him as an assistant in the Commissary Department, and when the brig Pilgrim, of Stonington, was commissioned to make war on the public enemy, the rejected volunteer was warmly welcomed on board by his kinsman, Captain Humphrey Crary. The first night after putting to sea, the Pilgrim encountered a British fleet just entering the Vineyard Sound.

"Amy Stonington I mean Blackford I'm just going to hug you!" cried Betty. "Go! Of course we'll go!" "After we find Will," put in Grace in a low voice. Amy's announcement unexpected as it was had two effects. It dispelled, for a time, the gloom that had come with the news of Will Ford's disappearance, and it gave the girls something to talk about, to speculate over and to plan for.

Sheriff come in night, while they sleep. Take them, take boat, take trap. Put them in jail. They break rock, work on road rest of summer. They not like that. They go!" "Good enough, Filippo! Guess you didn't strain the truth much. You certainly have got us out of an unpleasant hole. I'm free to say I was at my wits' end. Good thing for us we ran across you on the wharf at Stonington!"

"She doesn't look very well," spoke Betty in a low voice. Mrs. Stonington had greeted the girls as they came to call on Amy, and had then gone to lie down. The callers had all noticed how frail and worn she seemed. Perhaps the shock of almost losing Amy had something to do with it. But there also appeared to be the seeds of some deep-seated malady present in her system. And a look at Mr.

Two extra launches besides the Gem made the trip, the others carrying a number of sturdy men headed by Mr. Hammond. Mr. Stonington went with the girls, The Loon steering. By taking a little different course the boats were able to approach close to the camp in the forest fastness, and at a signal from The Loon all came to a stop. "We had better walk the rest of the way," said the half-witted lad.

"That's right," said Amy, and then went on to relate an experience she had had when skylarking with Sarah Stonington. "She had hold of that heavy rocking chair we have in the library," Amy said. "She was trying to pull it away from me, and I was hanging on to it for dear life.

I mean that it shan't make a particle of difference to us if you never had a father or mother " "Oh, of course I had some time," and Amy smiled through a mist of tears. "Only there's a mystery about them what became of them." "Why I thought all of us thought that Mr. and Mrs. Stonington were your parents," said the wondering Betty. "So did I, until lately.

But that latter form of name does not indicate that Amy was married. In the opening story Amy's name was Stonington, the ward of John and Sarah Stonington. But there was a mystery in her past, and it was solved when, in addition to unraveling the mystery of a five-hundred-dollar bill, Amy found a long-lost brother, whose name was Henry Blackford.