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And then, when it was drawn so tight that it did not seem possible to endure any more, Johnny Byrd appeared at Ri-Ri's side, conscious-eyed and boyishly embarrassed, but managing an offhand smile. "And is this the very first mountain you've ever climbed?" he demanded banteringly. Gladness rushed back into the girl. She raised a face that sparkled.
"No, you precious, only in dancing," replied Mary Byrd, as she rose airily and placed a kiss above the thundercloud on his forehead. "Will you go looking like this?" "Not if I can possibly look any worse." She swayed like a golden lily before his astonished gaze. "Can you suggest any way that I might?" "I cannot."
Between them, and without a spoken word, the two made this fact to be recognized by the other occupants of the drawing-room. Colonel Byrd, who had been standing with his hand upon the table, moved backward until he joined MacLean beside the closed door: Saunderson drew near to the schoolmaster: and the centre of the room was left to the would-be murderer and the victim that had escaped him.
"You're a pretty good scout for a little Wop," said Johnny Byrd with a sudden grin and a moment's brightness was lighted within her. She did not speak she could only breathe hard and smile. Nearer and nearer they gained the top, rough climbing but not dangerous. The top was not far now. Johnny shouted and listened, then shouted again.
"You didn't forget Betty while she was away, did you?" I asked, as we snuggled to each other and I started the motor, while Dr. Chubb chuckled and Sam still stood in the middle of the moonlit road as if uncertain what to do next. "Yes, I forgot you," answered Byrd, candidly, though I had adored him since his birth; "but I like to go see Mother Hayes and eat jelly-cake. Can I go home with you?"
Washington still was commander-in-chief of the Virginia troops, now augmented, by an act of the Assembly, to two regiments of one thousand men each; one led by himself, the other by Colonel Byrd; the whole destined to make a part of the army of General Forbes in the expedition against Fort Duquesne.
But after him she plunged, panting and scrambling up the rocks, and then, very suddenly, they found themselves to be on only a plateau and the real mountain head reared high and aloof above. Under his breath and not particularly under it, either Johnny Byrd uttered a distinct blasphemy. And in her heart Maria Angelina awfully seconded it. Then with decidedly assumed nonchalance, "Gosh!
Presently he turned again and placed them in a row on the bare expanse of his desk. He stood looking silently at them for a moment more before he spoke. "Mr. Byrd," he said at last, "this is very remarkable work." Mary exhaled an audible breath of relief, and turned a glowing face to Stefan. "It is the most remarkable work," went on the editor, "that has come into this office for some time past.
But just as he finished the last two lines those lines the magazine had called "as perfect in winged lyric quality as any lines in the English language could be" the Byrd, whom Sam had groomed carefully and brought in from the brier-patch for the occasion, rose, and, with his freckles black with the intensity of his comprehension of the poem, spread his little arms and said: "I fly! I fly!"
Me?" said Ruth amazedly. "Gee, what do you want me to do fan her? Let Johnny do it," and cheerfully she went on photographing a group upon a fallen log, and Mrs. Blair went on with the lawyer from Washington who was a rapid walker. And Ruth, with the casual thought that neither Ri-Ri nor Johnny Byrd would relish such attendance, promptly let the thought of them dissolve from her memory.
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