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The two friends, eager and excited by their adventure, were early astir next morning, and after breakfast Hilliard went out and bought the best map of the city and district he could find.
"Why, Ferriby's not in the town at all," he exclaimed after he had studied it for some moments. "It's up the river -- must be seven or eight miles up by the look of it; the North-Eastern runs through it and there's a station. We'd better go out there and prospect."