Chapter 9 - (VERSO)

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You didn’t have to walk from the station, did you? And your old daddy not there to welcome you!”

Sara laughed, swung herself back by the tips of his fingers and danced around him in the childish fashion of long ago.

“I found I could make an earlier connection with the C.P.R. yesterday and get to the Island last night. I was in such a fever to get home that I jumped at the chance. Of course I walked from the station—it’s only two miles and every step was a benediction. My trunks are over there. We’ll go after them to-morrow,