[Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes]@TWC D-Link bookVanished Arizona CHAPTER XVI 14/15
But don't you see, we shall be right on the river, the boat comes up every fortnight or so, you can jump aboard and go up to San Francisco." (Oh, how alluring that sounded to my ears!) "Why, it's no trouble to get out of Arizona from Ehrenberg. Then, too, I shall be independent, and can do just as I like, and when I like," et caetera, et caetera.
"Oh, you'll be making the greatest mistake, if you decide against it.
As for MacDowell, it's a hell of a place, down there in the South; and you never will be able to go back East with the baby, if we once get settled down there.
Why, it's a good fifteen days from the river." And so he piled up the arguments in favor of Ehrenberg, saying finally, "You need not stop a day there.
If the boat happens to be up, you can jump right aboard and start at once down river." All the discomforts of the voyage on the "Newbern," and the memory of those long days spent on the river steamer in August had paled before my recent experiences.
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