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`` We will send , '' decided Ammon . `` The trip will be a treat for them . O'More , would you get off a message at once ? '' Every one met the noon boat . They went in the motor because Philip was too weak to walk so far . As soon as people could be distinguished at all Elnora and Philip sighted an erect figure , with a head like a snowdrift . When the gang-plank fell the first person across it was a lean , red-haired boy of eleven , carrying a violin in one hand and an enormous bouquet of yellow marigolds and purple asters in the other .