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In which we take a Vacation and look for David Dutton |
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"What are ye goin' to do?" asked the driver, very much interested, for it was not every day that he had passengers who had lost their destination. "Ye might go on to Lowry's. He takes boarders sometimes." But Lowry's did not attract us. An ordinary country-tavern, where stage-passengers took supper, was not what we came so far to find. "Do you know where this house o' Dutton's is?" said the driver, to the man who had once taken either dinner or supper there. "Oh yes! I'd know the house well enough, if I saw it. It's the fust house this side o' Lowry's." "With a big pole in front of it?" asked the driver. "Yes, there was a sign-pole in front of it." "An a long porch?" "Yes." "Oh! well!" said the driver, settling himself in his seat. "I know all about that house. That's a empty house. I didn't think you meant that house. There's nobody lives there. An' yit, now I come to remember, I have seen people about, too. I tell ye what ye better do. Since ye're so set on staying on this side the ridge, ye better let me put ye down at Dan Carson's place. That's jist about quarter of a mile from where Dutton used to live. Dan's wife can tell ye all about the Duttons, an' about everybody else, too, in this part o' the country, and if there aint nobody livin' at the old tavern, ye can stay all night at Carson's, and I'll stop an' take you back, to-morrow, when I come along." |
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