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he passed the winter in this hunt, and by spring the excitement seemed to have subsided, or, at least, to be externally overlaid by other things. Tom Saxon thought it had died out entirely until one day, as he was strolling across the Common, listening to some business suggestions of Mallory, he saw Jim give a sudden start as a little dark lady passed, with her hair crepi and a gay voice, chatting volubly to her companion. "Jim, I thought you had dropped that string." Jim laughed, and sung, in a low baritone, "Her bright smile haunts mc still." And Christian Louboutin Outlet that was the last that Tom heard of the subject until—well, we will not anticipate. Winter passed, and spring had come; and with the spring, as every body knows, premonitions of cholera. All the Mallory family, mother and sisters, were in a state of worry and fuss from the first about this expected scourge. They had twenty plans in twenty days as to where they would go, and what they would do. Cape May, and Long Branch, and Newport went by the board, because somebody had told Mrs. Mallory that the sea-coast would be unsafe. Then came all the mountain resorts. This was too Christian Louboutin Shoes On Sale far, that was too near, another too full, etc., etc., until a queer little place, perched up among the Catskill Mountains, was decided upon. "And it will be so nice for you, James dear, for you can get your mails twice a day," said Mrs. Mallory. But "James dear" made no reply to thus. Ho had other plans. "I'm not going to sacrifice city comfort Christian Louboutin Discount another summer for one of those mosquito haunts," he said to his partner. "And as for cholera— bah!" And so it came about that, for the first time in six summers, Jim took up his head-quarters in the deserted house at home, and found it, as he declared, the coolest and most comfortable summer resort he had known for a long time. I don't mean to say that he took no excursions away from the brick and mortar and marble. There was scarcely a week but Christian Louboutin Sale found him for a day or so at one or another of the pleasant spots about New York, which were easily accessible to him by night trains or steamers. In the mean time his mother and three sisters wrote him frantic letters from the Kauterskill. They offered him every inducement they could think of—plenty of room, pure air, a nice table, and "such pleasant society." "TheCaledons—most delight fid ]>eople—are here," wrote Kate Mallory; "two charming daughters and a son. They live on our street at home, too; isn't it funny we came way up here to find each other out?" And here followed an urgent entreaty to brother James Christian Louboutin Discount Shoes to come up by Saturday night without fail and get acquainted with these delightful people. But brother James had made a partial engagement to go home with Mr. Wing, his partner, on Saturday night, and he didn't "see that he could get away from it," he wrote back to Kate. Before Saturday night, however, Jim Mallory found it the easiest thing in the world to get away from his partial engagement with Mr. Wing. It was Tuesday when he wrote to Kate. On Wednesday morning, as he was walking down the street on the shady side, he suddenly heard a strange, shrill voice call out: "Molly!
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