We
have some moments to spare, but hardly enough for that. Meanwhile...."
He picked up a handful of sand and applied it to a bare shoulder-blade
which somehow had failed to get its share of protection.
"Thanks," said Cope: "the right thing done for Polynices. Yes, I shall take
one final dip and dry myself on my handkerchief."
"I shall dry by the other process, and so shall be able to spare you mine."
"How much time have we yet?"
Randolph reached for his trousers, as they hung on a lower branch of one of
the basswoods. "Oh, a good three-quarters of an hour."
"That's time enough, and to spare. I wonder whom we're going to meet."
"There's a 'usual crowd': the three young ladies, commonly; one or two
young men who understand how to tinker the oil-stove--which usually needs
it--and how to prime the pump. They once asked me to do these things; but
I've discovered that younger men enjoy it more than I do, so I let them do
it. Besides these, a number of miscellaneous people, perhaps, who come out
by trolley or in their own cars."
"The young ladies always come?" asked Cope, brushing the sand from his
chest.
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