CHAPTER II. INVITATIONS TO A CRUISE OF LOVING KINDNESS
CHAPTER III. THE DIFFICULTIES OF GETTING UNDER WAY
CHAPTER IV. MATTERS ARE SETTLED
CHAPTER V. THE STORM AND WHAT FOLLOWED
CHAPTER VI. A MULE AND MELON TRANSACTION
CHAPTER VII. VISITORS
CHAPTER VIII. THE COLONEL’S REVELATION
CHAPTER IX. FISH AND MONKEYS
CHAPTER X. A MERE ANNE ARUNDEL GUST
CHAPTER XI. A MORNING CALL OF MONKEYS
CHAPTER XII. UNDER THE PERSIMMON TREE
CHAPTER XIII. WHAT LAY UNDER THE WALKING FERN
CHAPTER XIV. THE REDEMPTION OF A PROMISE
CHAPTER XV. IN THE HEART OF AN ANCIENT WOOD
CHAPTER XVI. WHEN THE MONKEYS’ CAGE WAS CLEANED
CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION
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“Huh! Dolly’s caught the Ford fashion of sending telegrams where a letter would do!” exclaimed Jim Barlow, after he had opened the yellow envelope which Griselda Roemer gave him when he came in from work.
He was back at Deerhurst, living with old Hans and Griselda, the caretakers, and feeling more at home in his little room above the lodge doorway than anywhere else. He had come to do any sort of labor by which he might earn his keep, and to go on with his studies whenever he had leisure. Mr. Seth Winters, the “Learned Blacksmith,” and his faithful friend, would give him such help as was needed; and the lad had settled down in the prospect of a fine winter at his beloved books. After his long summer on the Colorado mountains he felt rested and keener for knowledge than ever.
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On this trip to the station he had lingered till his grandfather had already boarded the street-car and too late for him to be sent home to change. Now he cowered before Ephraim’s frown and fear of what would happen when they two were alone together in the “harness room” of the old stable. On its walls reposed other whips than those used for Mrs. Calvert’s horses.
“Yeah, chile. Tote dem valeeshes home. Doan’ yo let no grass grow, nudder, whiles yo’ doin’ it. I’ll tend to yo’ case bimeby. I ain’ gwine fo’get.”
