He
threw her a careless kiss, and the train pulled out.
Presently, when Moira lifted her Madonna glance to the frieze of
timber on the skyline, there was a new glory in her eyes; and lo, it
was autumn in the woods, for over that hill Prince Charming had come
to her, and life was all crimson and gold!
When the train loaded with Cardigan logs crawled in on the main track
and stopped at the log-landing in Pennington's camp, the locomotive
uncoupled and backed in on the siding for the purpose of kicking the
caboose, in which Shirley and Colonel Pennington had ridden to the
woods, out onto the main line again--where, owing to a slight
downhill grade, the caboose, controlled by the brakeman, could coast
gently forward and be hooked on to the end of the log-train for the
return journey to Sequoia.
Throughout the afternoon Shirley, following the battle royal between
Bryce and the Pennington retainers, had sat dismally in the caboose.
She was prey to many conflicting emotions; but having had what her
sex term "a good cry," she had to a great extent recovered her
customary poise--and was busily speculating on the rapidity with
which she could leave Sequoia and forget she had ever met Bryce
Cardigan--when the log-train rumbled into the landing and the last of
the long string of trucks came to a stop directly opposite the
caboose.
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