Part 7 (1/2)
”Could you arrange to get off sooner than we planned, To has happened down there Have you sent the first shi+po It ought to arrive at Liht if we have to I'll find out if Mr Damon can be with us on such short notice”
”I wish you would,” came from Mr titus ”And say, Toiant Koku with you?”
”Why?”
”Well, I think he'd coh characters in those Andes Mountains, and your big friendof it, anyhow Glad you mentioned it Now I'll call up Mr Damon, and I'll let you know, in an hour or so, if he can make it”
”Bless my hair brush, yes, Toe in plans ”I can leave to-night as well as not”
Word to this effect was sent on to Mr titus, and then began soet ready to leave for New York at once, where he and the giant would join Mr titus and Mr Damon, and start across the continent to take for steamer for Lima, Peru
”Rad, did you send that present to Miss Nestor?” asked Torip
”Yas, sah I done did it Took it ood-bye to Mary over the telephone I won't have tiot the Nestor house on the wire But Mary was not in
”There's a package here for her,” said the girl's mother ”Did you--?”
”Yes, I sent that,” Toood-bye, but I'et back, and I'll write as soon as I arrive”
”Do,” urged Mrs Nestor ”We'll all be glad to hear froed to be married
Tom and Koku went on with their hurried preparations to leave for New York Eradicate begged to be taken along, but Toently told the faithful old servant that it was out of the question
”Besides, Rad,” he said, ”it's dangerous in those Andes Mountains Why, they have birds there, as big as cows, and they can swoop down and carry off a man your size”
”Am dat shorely so, Massa Toet the dictionary and read about the condors of the Andes Mountains”
”Dat's what I'll do, Massa To as cohat kin pick up a man in dere beaks, an' carry hio I'll stay right yeah!”
Shortly before Tom and Koku departed for the railroad station, where they were to take a train for New York, Mary Nestor returned hoood-bye,” her mother informed her, ”and said he was sorry he could not see you But he sent soift”
”Oh, hoeet of hi rooht it with a note”
Mary read the note first
In it Toed Mary to accept the little token, and to think of him when she used it