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Updated: May 9, 2025
Late that night, as I was preparing for pleasant dreams, a knock came on my door and a telegraph-messenger handed me a note, which I read, shivering in my bare feet, although the thermometer marked eighty Fahrenheit: "You will immediately leave for the Hudson Mountains via Wellman Bay, Labrador, there to await further instructions. Kindly find yourself on board at that hour.
"My poor boy," said May, putting her hand on her brother's arm, "it's not a very great beginning of life to become a telegraph-messenger." "Ah! now, May, that's not like yourself," said Phil, who unconsciously dropped perhaps we should say rose to a more decided brogue when he became tender or facetious. "Is it rousin' the pride of me you'd be afther?
She did not dream of going to bed. She had now to watch for the possible postal telegram; it would not be time for the last train for hours yet. She had the telegraph-messenger and some possible marauder to watch for. She kept her eyes glued to the expanse of the lawn and small stretch of road visible between the leafless trees. Now and then a carriage passed; very seldom a walking shadow.
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