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The day that Mr. and Mrs. Fairfield were to start on their trip to the mountains came during what is known as "a hot spell. " It was one of those days when life seems almost unbearable, -- when the slightest exertion seems impossible.
There was no breeze from the ocean, and the faint, languid land breeze that now and then gave an uncertain puff, was about as refreshing as a heat-wave from an opened furnace door.