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It was a new experience to Miles Bradford, this trudging through the / dense beech woods on a summer night behind a row of flickering lanterns. / The path they followed was a wide one, and well worn by the feet of / churchgoing negroes, for it was the shortest cut between the Valley and / Stumptown, a little group of cabins clustered around the colored church.
Ranald led the way with a brakeman's lantern, and Rob occasionally / illuminated the scene by electric flashes from the head of the / walking-stick he was flourishing. A varied string of fiery dragons, / winged fish, and heathen hobgoblins danced along beside them, for Kitty / was putting candles in a row of Japanese lanterns when they arrived at / The Beeches, and nearly everybody in the party accepted her invitation / to take one. Mary chose a sea-serpent with a grinning face, and Elise a / pretty oval one with birds and cherry blossoms on each side. Lloyd did / not take any. Her hands were already filled with a huge bouquet of red / roses.