THREE:After a short flight he came around in a wide swing, so that the airplane was over the Sound and then crossed the marsh again from that direction.Brewster explained that she was visiting Captain Campbell's family.
THREE:After a short flight he came around in a wide swing, so that the airplane was over the Sound and then crossed the marsh again from that direction.Brewster explained that she was visiting Captain Campbell's family.
THREE:"Did you, though?"
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THREE:With the zest of healthy youth the chums ��shelved�� the mystery and hid their chagrin at being wrong again. The repast provided by the yacht chef was worth their attention. Especially palatable was the iced lemonade which the hot, humid night made very delightful.
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THREE:And later in the day, when the buck had shuffled off again, Cairness brought out his pony,��a new one now, for the little pinto one had died of a rattlesnake bite, from which no golondrina weed had been able to save it,��and saddled it. Then he went again into the cabin. There was but one thing there that he valued,��a life-size head of Felipa he had done in charcoal. It was in a chest beneath his cot. He locked his chest, and going out locked the door also, and putting both keys upon a ring, mounted and rode off along the trail.��We��d better get that engine started, now.�� Dick left the grove.
THREE:It was now the turn of the French to triumph, and of the Allies to suffer consternation. Louis, once more elate, ordered Te Deum to be sung in Notre Dame, and all Paris was full of rejoicing. He declared that God had given a direct and striking proof of the justice of his cause and of the guilty obstinacy of the Allies. His plenipotentiaries assumed at Utrecht such arrogance that their very lacqueys imitated them; and those of Mesnager insulted one of the plenipotentiaries, Count von Richteren, and Louis justified them against all complaints. In such circumstances, all rational hope of obtaining peace except on the disgraceful terms accepted by England vanished.[See larger version]