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Updated: May 14, 2025
I read them while I was at Windburne." She paused and looked straight at Landis. Landis had no words to reply. She stood, dignified and erect by the study-table, toying with a silver paper-knife. The silence lasted for some minutes. Then feeling that Elizabeth was waiting for some word she gave a non-committal, "Well?"
"Yes, we smelled it," said Elizabeth seriously. He laughed, and inquired where they were going. Then he suggested a plan. The hotel was not a suitable place in which to spend the night, and they could not return to Exeter; but he would find for them a trustworthy driver who would take them safely to Windburne. There was no choice. Mary accepted his offer.
After we pass there, we won't see another for five miles, and when we do it will be Windburne. There, you can catch a glimpse of the place now." "Couldn't we stop and get warm?" asked Elizabeth, her teeth chattering. "My feet are numb!" "Yes; perhaps it would be better. We'll get Mrs. Stoner to heat bricks for our feet. She's very hospitable, and will make us comfortable."
Then with a look at Elizabeth, she added with conviction, "A little bit of a girl like you could not inconvenience her." The Wilson home was at Windburne, a two hours' ride from Exeter with a change of cars at Ridgway. It was extremely cold when the girls left the Hall, but before they reached Ridgway the mercury had gone several degrees lower.
The road to Windburne from the Ridgway junction is a local affair, narrow gauge, with little rocking cars in which a tall person could scarcely stand upright. Windburne is the county-seat and consequently a place of importance, but Ridgway has little traffic and the roads intersecting there take no pains to make close connections.
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