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The Depot Master

CHAPTER VI
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Harmon ordered a fifteen-foot-high board fence built all around the house and barn, and made Nate swear not to tell a soul who was comin' nor anything.

Dixland might want the island two months, he said, or he might want it two years.

Nate didn't care.

He was in for good pickin's, and begun to pick by slicin' a liberal commission off that fencebuildin' job.

There was a whole passel of letters back and forth between Nate and Harmon, and finally Nate got word to meet the victims at the depot.
"There was the professor himself, an old dried-up relic with whiskers and a temper; and there was Miss Olivia Dixland, his niece and housekeeper, a slim, plain lookin' girl, who wore eyeglasses and a straight up and down dress.


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