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But all the while I was planning and scheming to shave off every superfluous minute , and get to where he was . I held out the paper to Perry Potter , `` Have some one saddle up Shylock , '' I ordered , quite as if he had been Rankin . `` And Frosty will have to go with me as far as Osage . We can make it by to-morrow noon -- through King 's Highway . I mean to get that early afternoon train . '' The last sentence I sent back over my shoulder , on my way to the house . Dad sick -- dying ?