I feel as if I'd need about that much swimming to make me
clean, as the young man here suggests; travelling over the west in
midsummer is neither cool nor cleanly; but it's great, when things sell as
ours did. Land seems to be moving, and there's money under the surface;
nobody has lost so much, they are only economizing; we must do that
ourselves, but Swain and I are both safe, so we shall enjoy a few years of
work to recoup some pretty heavy losses; we're not worth what we were, but
we are even, with a home base, the love of God big in our hearts, and
doubly all right, since if we couldn't have righted ourselves, our friends
would have saved us, thanks to this little live wire on my left!"
"Oh Daddy, if you'd searched forever, you couldn't have found a better
name for Mickey!" cried Leslie. "Come on Douglas let's go home and rest."
"Just as soon as I write and start Mickey with a note," said Douglas. "Go
ahead, I'll be down soon."
He turned to his desk, wrote a few lines, and sealing them, handed the
envelope to the waiting boy.
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