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A Daughter of the Land

CHAPTER III
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The man saw Kate, dressed in her best and looking her best.
Slowly she extended her hand.
"I bet a picayune you are my new brother, Robert," she said.
The young man gripped her hand firmly, held it, and kept on looking in rather a stunned manner at Kate.
"Well, aren't you ?" she asked, trying to withdraw the hand.
"I never, never would have believed it," he said.
"Believed what ?" asked Kate, leaving the hand where it was.
"That there could be two in the same family," said he.
"But I'm as different from Nancy Ellen as night from day," said Kate, "besides, woe is me, I didn't wear a pink dress and pick you from the berry patch in a blue bowl." Then the man released her hand and laughed.

"You wouldn't have had the slightest trouble, if you had been there," he said.
"Except that I should have inverted my bowl," said Kate, calmly.

"I am looking for a millionaire, riding a milk-white steed, and he must be much taller than you and have black hair and eyes.

Good-bye, brother! I will see you this evening." Then Kate went down the path to deliver the telescope, render her thanks, make her promise of speedy payment, and for the first time tell her good news about her school.

She found that she was very happy as she went and quite convinced that her first flight would prove entirely successful..


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