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He was not hers , and she would hang out no clues for him to find her , even if he wished . It was better so . She sent the note and the little book to his address on Walnut Street ; and then after writing a note to her Grandmother Brady , saying that she was going away for a long trip with Grandmother Bailey , she gave herself into the hands of the future like a submissive but weary child . The noon train to New York carried in its drawing-room-car Madam Bailey , her granddaughter , her maid , and her dog , bound for Europe . The society columns so stated ; and so read Grandmother Brady a few days afterward . So also read George Benedict , but it meant nothing to him . When he received the note , his mind was almost as much excited as when he saw the little brown girl and the little brown horse vanishing behind the little brown station on the prairie .