CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF DEVON AND THE FIRST OF AMERICA
CHAPTER IV. IN THE HIGH VALLEY
CHAPTER V. ARRIVAL
CHAPTER VI. UNEXPECTED
CHAPTER VII. THORNS AND ROSES
CHAPTER VIII. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
CHAPTER IX. THE ECHOES IN THE EAST CANYON
CHAPTER X. A DOUBLE KNOT
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THE next week was a busy one. Packing had begun; and what with Mrs. Young's motherly desire to provide her children with every possible convenience for their new home, and Imogen's rooted conviction that nothing could be found in Colorado worth buying, and that it was essential to carry out all the tapes and sewing-silk and buttons and shoe-thread and shoes and stationery and court-plaster and cotton cloth and medicines that she and Lionel could possibly require during the next five years, – it promised to be a long job.
In vain did Lionel remonstrate, and assure his sister that every one of these things could be had equally well at St. Helen's, where some of them went almost every day, and that extra baggage cost so much on the Pacific railways that the price of such commodities would be nearly doubled before she got them safely to the High Valley.
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"What an odd idea."
"We are full of odd ideas over in America, you know."
