whale'--something fishy about it, see?"
Stud winked. "For 'Starry' an' his father%
--who 's a queer fish, if ever there was
one--had a camp then up on Greylock
peak, and the postmaster in charge o'
the Greylock mail owned that he received
letters for them addressed to another name%
--only he couldn't--wouldn't--give it
away."

"Wha-at!"

Pem's hand suddenly smote her lips.

Her wide eyes were no patchwork now.
Stud had not thought that a girl's eyes
could be so blue. It almost gave him
the "Willies", their remote, peculiar sky-glow,
as if afar--afar--they were seeing
things.

"What!" she gasped again, while that
vivid glow faded, became bluish, blank,
the tint of "Moonshine"--of a strange,
wild, nondescript dream.

Moonshine that seemed flooding her
whole being!

And yet--although she was a quick-
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