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Ill let me; but if I have tired you with such a long talk she may refuse
to allow me in," Mr. Selincourt replied. "Nellie won't do that. My
children are very good to me, although it is very hard on them that I
should be left a log on their
hands like this. But I hope you will come soon, for you have given me a
very happy morning," the invalid said;
and rising to his feet he walked slowly into the sunshine, supporting
himself on a stout stick, to watch his
visitor get into the waiting boat and be rowed away to the opposite bank
of the river. When Katherine and Phil came down from Ochre Lake three
hours later, the invalid was still out-of-doors, only now he was seated
on a bank in the shade of a spreading spruce, while the twins played
round him, building houses of fir cones, and
laying out gardens in patterns of pine needles. "Why, Father, it is
pleasant to see you out-of-doors again, and I am sure the air will do
you good!"
Katherine exclaimed in pleased surprise,
as she came down the portage path, laden with a great reed basket filled
with ptarmigan
eggs. "Katherine, I have had such a nice morning!" he said with childish
eagerness. "Mr.
Selincourt has been to see me, and I like him so very much." Katherine
nearly dropped her basket of eggs, being so