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Tracy Park

CHAPTER VIII
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CHAPTER VIII.
ARTHUR.
All the time that Frank Tracy had been receiving his guests and trying to seem happy and at his ease, his thoughts had been dwelling upon his brother's telegram and the ominous words, 'Send some one to meet us.' How slowly the minutes dragged until it was ten o'clock, and he knew that John had started for the station to meet the dreaded '_us_.' He had told everybody that he was expecting his long-absent brother, and had tried to seem glad on account of it.
'You and he were great friends, I believe,' he said to Squire Harrington.
'Yes, we were friends,' the latter replied; 'but when he lived here my health was such that I did not mingle much in society.

I met him, however, in Paris four years ago, and found him very companionable and quite Europeanized in his manner and tastes.

He spoke French or German altogether, and might easily have passed for a foreigner.

I shall be glad to see him.' 'And so shall I,' chimed in Peterkin, whose voice was like a trumpet and could be heard everywhere.

'A first-rate chap, though we didn't use to hitch very well together.


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