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"The Strongs know," I put in hastily, thus cutting him off. "What!" He jumped up from his chair. "Who was fool enough to tell them?" "Nicholas Weaver left a dying statement " "The idiot! I always said he was a weak-minded fool!" cried Chris Holtzmann. "Who has this statement?" "I don't know where it is now, but Carson Strong's son had it." "Strong's son! Great Scott!
Our two toboggan men were possibly vigilant and reassuring beyond the common, but one was quite silently so; the other, who spoke a little English, encouraged us from time to time to believe that they were "strong mans," afterward correcting himself in conformity to the rules of Portuguese grammar, which make the adjective agree in number with the noun, and declaring that they were "strongs mans."
"It is a wonderful city, this, Douglas," she said. "It has made a great man of you and a happy woman of Cissy." "And you?" he asked gently. "Well, it has taught me a little tolerance, I think," she said. "You know we Strongs are hill folk, our loves and hates are lasting and perhaps narrow. I have been a mistaken woman, but I have much to be thankful for.
This is my chum from Martindale, Miss Sherrar, Miss Greenfield " "I'm Frances," again the radiant-faced stranger interrupted. "And I am Gail," smiled the other. "I have heard the Strongs speak of you often." "No oftener than we have heard them speak about you," Frances assured her. "We have known both of them for years, and ever since they took charge here in Parker we have heard lots about you."
The only black on whom we could rely to act as a scout was our own attendant Toby, who volunteered, without hesitation, to accompany us. The party consisted of the three elder Strongs, Bracewell, Guy, and I, and two men from the station, with Toby.
By the end of April the new house was ready for them to move in, and by July the whole family, including the Strongs, were established on the place. The conditions of their lives were now vastly more comfortable. Mrs. Stevenson no longer had to share the evening lamp with death's-head moths and piping tree-frogs, for gauze doors and windows had been put in to keep out the flying things.
A shilling apiece seemed handsome for those "strongs mans," but afterward there were watches of the nights when the spirit grieved that the shilling had not been made two apiece or even half a crown, and I wish now that the first reader of mine who toboggans down Madeira would make up the difference for me in his tip to those poor fellows.
Grandpa Campbell surely would not turn them away, for did he not know what it was to be homeless and friendless? But she could not take them home while Allee was in bed with scarlet fever, and perhaps the Strongs would not feel that they could open the parsonage doors to two more children, seeing that the house was so very tiny. What could she do with her charges?
Guy and I, with the young Strongs, worked with the farm hands from morning till night, in putting up fences and rebuilding the house; and in a wonderfully short time the station, which had become little more than a mass of ruins, began to assume a habitable aspect. Though we worked without wages the knowledge we gained was of the greatest value to us in our subsequent career.
It was good of ye to come over." Douglas was only too glad of an excuse to visit the Strongs. It was dark by the time he reached the house, as he had been delayed owing to the cattle going astray from the pasture. The door was opened by Nan, who gave a cry of delight when she saw Douglas standing before her. "My, you have been a long time coming to see us again," she chided.
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