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"We have made arrangements by which she will be out by the withered oak at nine o'clock." "That's not for half an hour," cried Burt, in a surly voice. "You need not have woke me yet." "We'd better go out there now. She may come rather before the time" "Come on, then!" said the navvy, buttoning up his coat and rolling a ragged cravat round his throat. "Who is a-comin' with me?"
The light and kindly way in which he answered his brother proved that he was victor. "Webb," said Burt, putting his hand on the elder brother's shoulder, "you saved my life last winter, and life has become of immense value to me.
He gave you that letter." "You are right," said the expert, "and what a fool I must be! I have no eye except for handwriting. He had a beard; and such a beard!" "It is Robert!" cried Helen, in raptures. "He is come just in time." "In time to be arrested," said Burt. "Why, his time is not out. He'll get into trouble again."
Burt tried to look serious, but Webb's and Leonard's laughter betrayed him. Amy turned inquiringly to Webb, as she ever did when perplexed. "Don't mind Burt's chaff," he said. "This is merely a map of the farm, and we are doing a little planning for our spring work deciding what crop we shall put on that field and how treat this one, etc.
"Webb and Amy have evidently some joke on Burt," remarked Leonard. "Webb was out last night, and I bet a pippin he caught Burt flirting with Miss Hargrove." "Oh, Burt!" cried Amy, in mock indignation. "Nonsense!" said his mother. "Burt is going to settle down now and be steady. We'll make him sign a pledge before he goes West, won't we, Amy?"
Before they had finished their repast an east wind was moaning and sighing in the trees, and a thin scud of clouds overcasting the sky. They were soon in the haste and bustle of departure. Miss Hargrove found an opportunity, however, to draw Dr. Marvin aside, and asked, hesitatingly, "If Burt if Mr. Clifford had missed his aim when he sprang upon the snake, what would have happened?"
Again the head of the trapper was thrown back, his white teeth shone through his immense whiskers, the wrinkles gathered at the corner of his eyes, and his musical laugh rang out from the capillary depths. Burt was proud of his beard, as he well might be. Few people in those days wore such an ornament, and those who did so were sure to attract attention.
Brain scored on a fly-ball to left. A double along the right foul line brought the second runner home. Following that the next batter went out on strikes. In the Philadelphia half of the inning young Burt was the first man up. He stood left-handed at the plate and looked formidable.
Quiddy further remarked, with the forefinger still wandering in the air as if restlessly seeking for some argument to point, that the silver shoe-buckles which had so long been identified with the quaint costume of Mr. Burt, would be a very pretty and interesting heir-loom in the family of young Mr. Dinks.
She proposed to have a good time during the remainder of the summer, and saw in Burt a means to that end, while she instinctively felt that she must propitiate Amy in order to accomplish her purpose. Therefore she was disposed to pay a little court to her on general principles. She had learned that the young girl was a ward of Mr. Clifford's.
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