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More puzzled than ever by these explorations, the two adventurers climbed into the chart room. Here, also, everything was intact, and in order. In a desk they found the ship's log and clearance papers. The captain's and the mate's licenses hung in frames against the wall. Near these was tacked the picture of a sunny-haired little girl and underneath it was written the name "Minnie."
And Robby, in a quick childish voice, roared forth at schoolroom pitch, "Lesson 62. The Hero of Haarlem. Many years ago, there lived in Haarlem, one of the principal cities of Holland, a sunny-haired boy of gentle disposition.
Thus he might bring down the kite and the humming-bird with one stone. While the sunny-haired ornithologist was pursuing his studies the Cisco Kid was also attending to his professional duties. No true artist is uplifted by shooting an aged man carrying an old-style .38 bulldog. On his way the Kid suddenly experienced the yearning that all men feel when wrong-doing loses its keen edge of delight.
At length a little blue-eyed, sunny-haired child ascended the platform and recited "The Old Oaken Bucket," with wonderful pathos, so accurate was her enunciation, so impressive the varying cadences of her sweet voice. "Who is she?" I inquired the great man when the storm of applause had somewhat subsided. "We call her 'Daisy of the Glen," was the reply. "She is a prodigy for her age.
"Yes, yes," answered the father, "I'll shear every one of you." All laughed but the little one; which, half frightened, hid its sunny-haired little head on the mother's bosom: the father raised it gently, and kissed, first it, and then the mother. "Now put sugar in papa's cup," said she to the little one; "look! he holds it to you."
So, when he read Dolly's card, being by nature suspicious, he felt sure the child had called to see what she could get out of him. But when he descended to the consulting-room with stern set face, and saw a beautiful girl of seventeen awaiting him, a tall sunny-haired girl, with Alan's own smile and Alan's own eyes, he grew suddenly aware of an unexpected interest.
Thenceforth the creature who has the luck to have them is absolved from labor. When this finger goes up he resigns all hope, as those who pass the gate of the Inferno, replaces his hat and lapses into silence, or turns away to some new group of sunny-haired foreigners.
He was very happy, now, in a larger house, with a study and book shelves, his mother a tender and tranquil woman, Faith a contented housekeeper with a servant, and hardly knowing which to adore the most, Polly Henry's merry madcap household, or Primrose Wharton's sunny-haired daughter. The only thing Philemon Henry would undo are those years that he was hardly answerable for.
"Torchy, you sunny-haired emblem of good luck!" he sings out. "What do you think! I've got her!" "Eh!" says I. "The Balboa?" "The Balboa be hanged!" says he. "No, no! Elsa Miss Hampton, you know! She's mine, Torchy; she's mine!" "S-s-s-sh!" says I, noddin' towards the other room. "Forget her a minute and brace yourself for a run-in with that gang of rag-chewers in there." Does he?
A fair, intelligent, rather fine-looking woman, but barefooted like the rest; from her neck behind, dangled a red sunbonnet, and a sunny-haired child of five was in her arms "sort o' weak in her lungs, poor thing!" she sadly said, as I snapped my fingers at the smiling tot.
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