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Diane of the Green Van

CHAPTER XVIII
14/17

Back there in a village we induced a blacksmith with brains and brawn to fit a tall iron frame around the wagon and if the sun's too hot, or it showers, we shed some more hay and drape a tarpaulin or so over the frame.

It's an excellent arrangement.

We can have side curtains or not just as we choose.

In certain wet circumstances, of course, we'll most likely take to barns and inns and wood-houses and corncribs and pick up the trail in the morning.

You can't imagine," he added, "how ready pedestrians are to tell us which way the green moving van went." Whereupon the nomad of the hay-camp and his ruffled guest crossed swords again over a pot of coffee, with inglorious defeat for Diane, who departed for her own camp in a blaze of indignation.
"I'll ignore him!" she decided in the morning as the green van took to the road again.


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