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fairly yelled Cloverbend in unison of protest with Providence . `` Thank you , Aunt Mary , '' said Pan in the fluty tenderness with which he had always addressed her . `` The governor does n't know it , but I ca n't make a speech to you to-night . I am going to catch that ten o'clock train for Argentina , to get some wheat secrets for all of us , and I want all of you to begin right away to plow good and deep so you 'll be ready for me when I get back in a few months . We 'll have to inoculate the land before we sow . Only here are just one or two things I will say to you before I have to start . '' For about ten minutes Adam stood there before those farmer folk and , with his fluty voice and the fire glow in his eyes , led them up upon a high mountain of imagination and showed them the distant land into which he could lead them , which , when they arrived , they would find to be their own .