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Updated: May 14, 2025
"An' then ye throw in a piece of grin'stone with the loon, and set it to bilin' again. When ye kin stick a fork in the grin'stone, the loon's done!" Nan joined in Toby's loud laugh at this old joke, and pretty soon thereafter they came to the hummock on which the Vanderwillers lived.
To tell the truth, little Margaret Llewellen was not the only person who thought it odd that Nan should want to go to see the Vanderwillers in the heart of the tamarack swamp. Nan's uncle and aunt and cousins considered their guest a little odd; but they made no open comment when the girl arrived at home after her visit.
At one end of it was Pine Camp; in the other direction, after passing the knoll on which the Vanderwillers lived, the roadway came out upon a more traveled road to the forks and the railroad. Pine Camp was the nearest place where help could be secured to beat down the fire, if, indeed, this were at all possible.
"What's the matter now?" her cousin demanded, rather sharply, for his burns were painful. "Toby, the Vanderwillers! What will become of them?" "What d'you mean?" asked Tom, aghast. "That poor cripple! They can't get away, he and his grandmother. Perhaps Toby hasn't come home yet." "And the wind's that way," Tom interrupted. It was indeed.
"I am much interested in your account of the lame boy's specimens. I want the strangely marked moth in any case, and the check pays for an option on it until I can come and see his specimens personally." Nan went that very afternoon to the tamarack swamp to tell the Vanderwillers this news and give Toby the check.
Uncle Henry was away and Aunt Kate had sent Rafe out to look for Nan, although she supposed that the girl had remained at the Vanderwillers' until the rain was over, and that Toby would bring her home. There was but one other incident of note before the three of them reached the rambling house Uncle Henry had built on the outskirts of Pine Camp.
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