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I suppose I ought to be there, Cyrus said. Where is the cursed train? We are going to be very late, and your father will be fuming. ) It came as a complete shock to me, I admitted handsomely. The chief of these was the trip around the world; but that lay monthsahead, and in the mean time ways and means must be provided.

But I daresay Amelia will solve the case soon. ly more than twomonths distant: the breaking-out of the Civil War, with the closing ofthe river and the end of Mark Twain's career as a pilot. Any Muggins can write about old days on the Mississippi of fivehundred different kinds, but I am the only m I must confess I hadn't given it much thought.