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 heralded abroad, and outsiders also were clamoring for railway facilities.

Genung was jubilant, and his daily visits to Hernando, now out of quarantine, only increased that young man's impatience to be actively engaged with the others in this great enterprise.

Granny had long since taken him under her wing. His deference to her opinions, and old-fashioned chivalry to all women, completely won her. There existed a strong attachment between them. She would sit by the hour in his room recounting adventures of pioneer days and her vivid pictures interested him intensely. She possessed an inexhaustible fund of them; her memory never deceived, and she regarded the slightest deviation from the exact truth as criminal.

"Where is Miss Eletheer?" Hernando inquired of her after she had just finished a most interesting story. "I have not seen her since dinner."

"Call the child by her plain name. She has gone daft over that mine and very likely