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Clover

CHAPTER IX
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Dusk slowly gathered about them; and the white-gloved butler set the little tables, and brought in broiled chicken and grilled salmon and salad and hot rolls and peaches, and they were all very hungry.

And Clover did not cry, but fell to work on her supper with an excellent appetite, quite unconscious that they were speeding through another wonderful gorge without seeing one of its beauties.

Then the car was detached from the train; and when she awoke next morning they were at the little station called Cimmaro, at the head of the famous Black Canyon, with three hours to spare before the train from Utah should arrive to take them back to St.Helen's.
Early as it was, the small settlement was awake.

Lights glanced from the eating-house, where cooks were preparing breakfast for the "through" passengers, and smokes curled from the chimneys.

Close to the car was a large brick structure which seemed to be a sort of hotel for locomotives.
A number of the enormous creatures had evidently passed the night there, and just waked up.


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