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I 'm going to land Allen over there at that dock with the two white lights , and I 'll come back with Marian and we 'll take her home . Flash the light occasionally so I sha n't lose you . '' A few minutes later when Allen , sulky and breathing dire threats , had been dropped ashore , Harwood paddled Marian home , Sylvia trailing behind . It was near midnight when Sylvia , having hidden Marian 's suit case in Mrs. Owen 's boathouse , watched the tearful and wrathful Juliet steal back into her father 's house . Allen lodged at the inn with Dan that night and , duly urged not to make a fool of himself again , went home by the morning train . The Great Seal of the Hoosier Commonwealth , depicting a sturdy pioneer felling a tree while behind him a frightened buffalo gallops madly into oblivion , was affixed to a proclamation of the governor convening the legislature in special session on the 20th of November . It was Morton Bassett 's legislature , declared the Republican press , brought back to the capital to do those things which it had left undone at the regular session .