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Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
received like a long-lost government bond, and hug Abraham into the bargain. I haven't asked you any of the particulars, Captain, but I judge it goes without saying—if my experience is worth anything—that there wasn't much of a hooraw made over you when you arrived—now was there?"
"Don't mention it, Sandy," says I, coloring up a little; "I wouldn't have had the family see it for any amount you are a mind to name. Change the subject, Sandy, change the subject."
"Well, do you think of settling in the California department of bliss?"
"I don't know. I wasn't calculating on doing anything really definite in that direction till the family come. I thought I would just look around,
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