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That night, too, there was another jetting out of gas from the distant planet. I saw it. A reddish flash at the edge, the slightest projection of the outline just as the chronometer struck midnight; and at that I told Ogilvy and he took my place.
"Well, it isn't necessary, although it's good form in a small town like Sequoia, where everybody knows everybody else." "I thought so," Moira murmured thoughtfully. "I'll ask Miss Sumner to come with us. Mr. Ogilvy won't mind the extra expense, I'm sure." "He'll be delighted," Bryce assured her maliciously. "Ask Miss Sumner, by all means." When Moira had left him, Bryce sighed.
"Ah!" said Miss Ogilvy, with a sigh, "they seek the company of their kindred 'Elementals, although they do not know it, and soon those Elementals will have the mastery of them and break them to pieces, as the lions did the maligners of Daniel." In after years Godfrey always remembered this as a very remarkable prophecy, but at the time, not knowing what an Elemental might be, he only marvelled.
"This new railroad that man Ogilvy talks of building which means, Shirley, that with Sequoia as his starting point, he is going to build a hundred and fifty miles north to connect with the main line of the Southern Pacific in Oregon." "But wouldn't that be the finest thing that could possibly happen to Humboldt County?" she demanded of him.
"They'll meet this evening in the private diningroom of the Hotel Sequoia, if I can arrange it," Buck Ogilvy declared emphatically. "I'm going to have them all up for dinner and talk the matter over.
But presently carriages were ordered, and a "delegation" of enthusiastic friends departed to congratulate him; Dickinson, of course, Grierson, Fowndes, Ogilvy, and Grunewald. We found Judah B. Tallant there, in spite of the fact that it was a busy night for the Era; and Adolf Scherer himself, in expansive mood, was filling the largest of the library chairs. Mr.
Colonel Ogilvy, who was another mirror by whom the Maidens of Auld Reekie were required to dress themselves.
"It was great," Bryce continued. "Old Duncan McTavish returned. I knew he would. His year on the mourner's-bench expired yesterday, and he came back to claim his old job of woods-boss." "He's one year too late," Ogilvy declared. "I wouldn't let that big Canadian Jules Rondeau quit for a farm.
He was a poor man, it is true, as regarded money, having barely sufficient for his own subsistence, but he was rich in kindliness and sympathy, so that he managed to make his small income perform wonders. On hearing of his brother-in-law's death, Captain Ogilvy hastened to afford all the consolation in his power to his sorrowing sister. The captain was an eccentric old man, of rugged aspect.
Ogilvy heard this he seemed to be much impressed, repeatedly he nodded his head as some beat time to music, and he muttered to himself, "The right word yes, that's everything," and "'the time went by like winking' exactly, precisely," and he would have liked to examine Tommy's bumps, but did not, nor said a word aloud, for was he not there in McLauchlan's interest?
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