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`` You say that now , '' she exclaimed , `` but my words will come back to you in Injya when you grow tired of her ladyship 's coldness and disdain ; and I 'm silly enough to think you 'll find them a comfort to you out there , with nothing to do but to think and think , and be miserable . '' The next day he found Cassie in a more cheerful humour and excited about the dance . The house was all upset and she was busy with a dozen of her girl friends in decorating the hall and drawing-room , taking up the carpets , arranging for the supper and the cloakrooms , and immersed generally in the thousand and one tasks that fall on a hostess-to-be . Frank put himself at her orders and spent the better part of the afternoon in running errands and tacking up flags and branches ; and after an hilarious tea , in the midst of all the litter and confusion , he went back to the ship somewhat after five o'clock . As he was pulled out in a shore boat he was surprised to pass a couple of coal lighters coming from the Minnehaha , and to see her winches busily hoisting in stores from a large launch alongside . He ran up the ladder , and seeing the captain asked him what was up . `` Sailing orders , Chief , '' said Captain Landry , enjoying his amazement .