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THREE:They had been four days camping on Black River, a mountain stream rushing between the steep hills, with the roar of a Niagara, hunting deer and small game, fishing with indifferent success,to the disgust of the Apaches, who would much rather have eaten worms than fish,and entertaining visitors. There were any[Pg 90] number of these. One party had come out from Fort Apache, another from a camp of troops on the New Mexico road, and some civilians from Boston, who were in search of a favorable route for a projected railway.But how did it get there? Sandy reiterated. I thought
THREE:Im for the hangar! voted Dick. If theres any specters roaming through that hangar youll get more chills there than you will by the Sound.
THREE:Ive got it! Dick passed forward his paper."I dare say," he answered carelessly. "Come and meet him. You'll like him."
THREE:Vol IV CHAPTER I THE REIGN OF ANNE (concluded).I remembered to return the controls to neutral when I had the ship flying just the way I wanted it to, he mused. And I didnt over-control. Maybemaybe it wont be long before Tommy will let me solo. It wasnt!
THREE:He drew back on the stick for, with the throttle rather widebecause Larry had feared a stall as the nose went up and had thrust the throttle control sharply forwardthe craft began to go down in a very steep glide, not quite a dive, but with engine on full gun, sending it in a sharp angle toward earth.
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THREE:Three weeks later she left the post and the West. Landor's health was broken from the effects of the poisonweed and the manifold troubles of the months past. In lieu of sick leave, he was given a desirable detail, and sent on to Washington, and for a year and a half he saw his wife fitted into a woman's seemly sphere. She was heralded as a beauty, and made much[Pg 159] of as such, and the little vanities that had rarely shown before came to the surface now. He was proud of her. Sought after and admired, clothed in purple and scarlet and fine linen, within the limits of a captain's pay, a creature of ultra-civilization, tamed, she was a very charming woman indeed. There seemed to be no hint of the Apache left. He all but forgot it himself. There was but one relapse in all the time, and it chanced that he had no knowledge of that.