CHAPTER XI
ON LITTLE CROW
Mae Ferrand was not on hand the next
afternoon when the twins and Bob Starling
reached the Widow Deane's. Mae, Polly informed
them, had gone to Poughkeepsie to spend
Sunday with her grandmother. They decided to
go down to the river for their walk this afternoon,
and were soon descending Walnut Street. At the
station they crossed the tracks, passed the freight-shed,
and went southward beside the river, blue
and sparkling in the spring sunlight. Then they
had to return again to the tracks and cross a
bridge that spanned a narrow inlet. The inlet
connected the river with a shallow stretch of
marsh and water known as the Basin which lay
between the tracks and the big rock-quarry. The
quarry was slowly but very surely removing the
hill called Little Crow, and the face of the quarry
was fully eighty feet in height from the boulder-strewn
base to the tree-topped summit. It was
