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Home duties and church interests flagged badly during these two years, and the summer she was twenty-four, it became town talk that this young couple would marry. The Beckmans were very willing.

This was a malady which had not been mentioned at the medical college. "Where shall we set the tables, if we dance in the dining room?" she asked, having heard enough of the Beckmans for the present. "Why, we won't set any tables. Folks always have a lap supper at ranch dances. At the su'prise on Mary " "What is a lap supper?" "Well, my stars alive!

The Tappans appeared with their guests, old Tappan grimmer, rustier, gaunter than usual; his son and heir, Peter he of the rambling and casual legs more genial, more futile, more acquiescent than ever. The Crays, Beckmans, Ellises, and Grandcourts arrived; Catharine Grandcourt shared Mrs.

Weary cast a jealous eye upon the limp, little animal, searched his heart for remorse and found none. Ornery little brute, to get familiar with his schoolma'am! "I did not think you could be so wantonly cruel, and I am astonished and and deeply pained to discover that fatal flaw in your character." Weary began to squirm, after the manner of delinquent Beckmans and Pilgreens.

She put her hands behind her and stood accusingly before him with the look upon her face which never failed to make sundry small Beckmans and Pilgreens squirm on their benches when she assumed it in school. "Mr. Davidson" not Weary Davidson, as she was wont to call him "you have killed my pet gopher. All summer I have fed him, and he would eat out of my hand."

How the patient slept, what the doctor said, the effect of the new medicine, how the heart was standing the strain, what the visiting neighbors thought of the case, in fact the whole subject of sickness held a morbid interest for each member of the family. Sickness, no matter how slight, was with the Beckmans ever an excuse for changing any or all plans.

As a matter of fact, it was the Densons, and the Pilgreens, and the Beckmans that were under discussion, and not the Flying U cowboys, as Chip believed. He no longer smiled sympathetically. "We furnish her with some amusement, do we? That's good! We're a good- hearted lot, but SO ignorant! The devil we are!" He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off.