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As Jost had his own interest in winning the young fellow over, he controlled himself, and said in most soothing tones, "Dietrich, I am your friend. Some day you will be very grateful to me. As you are in such a hurry, I will not stop you now; only promise me to come over bye-and-bye for a few minutes to the Rehbock; there's a good fellow, and you will not be sorry. Will you come?"
Other settlers came among us from time to time, and bye-and-bye we had both a school and a meeting-house. As for me I do not now look forward to a single day.
We remained here over an hour longer, walking up and down, exchanging confidences and forming the most wonderful plans of what we would do together bye-and-bye, not only while at school, but when we grew up and went into the world.
"It's of all the dazzlings, the most blindingly beautiful," was Poppy's oft-reiterated comment. "Oh! won't I have something to tell them ladies about bye-and-bye! Oh, my! Miss Jasmine, what a neat hat, miss! I don't mind denuding this one now, for I has got a 'at from a West End shop what beats anything that Miss Slowcum wears for gentility."
"But we mustn't go only for pleasure," continued Primrose; "indeed, we must not go at all for pleasure. We must go to work hard, and to learn, so that bye-and-bye we may be really able to support ourselves. Now, there is only one way in which we can do that. We must take that two hundred pounds which Mr. Danesfield has in the bank, and we must live on it while we are being educated.
Hines nodded. "Here's a tasty thing I just completed," continued the poet, and, extending a benignant hand toward the visitor he intoned nasally: "Together we have lived our life Till thou hast gone on high. But I will come to thee, dear Wife, In the sweet bye-and-bye." "That style five dollars," he said. "You're on," barked Mr. Hines. "I'll take it."
"They have to be or break their necks," replied Walter. "Or ours," added Ned Rector. "I don't see any wild beasts, but I feel hungry," declared Stacy. "My stomach tells me it's time for the 'chuck wagon, as Lige Thomas calls it, to drive up." "Tighten your belt tighten your belt," jeered Ned. "Cheer up! You'll be hungrier bye-and-bye."
"Shoot it." She waved him off. "Just wait 'till I can breathe.... Do you remember what you told me a long time ago about a talk you had with your aunt? And she said bye-and-bye you'd see the writing on the wall?" "Yes." "Well, I've seen it!" "Whereabouts?" "Wait.... And remember your talking to Mr. Mix, when he said you ought to go to a League meeting and air your views?" "Yes." "Well, I went!"
They very much admired an American wagon, for their own vehicles were rude affairs, as I shall bye-and-bye describe. We bade each other many adios, and I went on my way, soon catching up with the little party. We had been informed that it was ten leagues, or thirty miles to Los Angeles, whither we were now headed.
It was a miserable night, the hours seemed interminable, the dense volumes of smoke from the water-sodden wood nearly choked us. At last, after some hours spent in this miserable manner, we heard a faint halloo in the distance; it was now past eleven at night. We returned the hail, and bye-and-bye the peons returned bringing a boatman with them.
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