"You are going to start to-morrow," she said."The good captain of the ship has promised to take care of you, so you will not be afraid, and I know you will be good children."It seemed like a month to Jan and Marie, but it was really only seven days later that they stood on the deck of the good ship Caspian, as it steamed proudly into the wonderful harbor of New York.It was dusk, and already the lights of the city sparkled like a sky full of stars dropped down to earth.High above the other stars shone the great torch of "Liberty enlightening the World." "Oh," gasped Marie, as she gazed, "New York must be as big as heaven.Do you suppose that is an angel holding a candle to light us in?"Just then the captain came to find them, and a few minutes later they walked with him down the gangplank, right into a pair of outstretched arms.The arms belonged to Madame Dujardin, their new mother."I should have known them the moment I looked at them, even if they hadn't been with the captain," she cried to her husband, who stood smiling by her side."Poor darlings, your troubles are all over now! Just as soon as Captain Nichols says you may, you shall come with us, and oh, I have so many things to show you in your new home!"She drew them with her to a quieter part of the dock, while her husband talked with the captain, and then, when they had bidden him good-bye, they were bundled into a waiting motor car and whirled away through miles of brilliantly lighted streets and over a wonderful bridge, and on and on, until they came to green lawns, and houses set among trees and shrubs, and it seemed to the children as if they must have reached the very end of the world.At last the car stopped before a house standing some distance back from the street in a large yard, and the children followed their new friends through the bright doorway of their house.
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