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`` Will you go to Denver to-day ? '' `` To-night ! Why , it is eight o'clock ! But I could take the noon train when it goes back from Oak Creek , and Anne might go with me . '' `` That 's what I thought you could do , but your evident impatience made me wonder if you had an air-route you could travel by . '' John laughed , and Anne placed her arm about her future mother-in-law . Then the talk veered to Polly and her future education .