he told the two girls, "not go outside
o' her ain bit atmosphere--be sending
muckle messages outside it--it's na
canny."

He even respectfully delivered himself
of this opinion to the inventor--to Toandoah,
with the hungry look of loss in his
eye, which occasionally wrought Pemrose
to the point of choking sobs and to clenching
her fists at the mysterious robber.

And he repeated it, with elaborations,
did Andrew, on the second June morning
after the loss when Professor Lorry, declaring
that it would take a year to search
every foot of Greylock Peak, and that
he was not going to waste time in crying
over spilt milk, went down the mountain
with his young assistant and Mr. Grosvenor,
who had business in the valley,
to procure materials for another experiment
-although not on the same scale
as the first--the girls being left behind
with the landlady of the little mountain
inn where they were staying.

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