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"Oh, thank you, Uncle Peter!" exclaimed the chair-girl gratefully. "Have you any any news of Gran'pa Jim?" asked Mary Louise diffidently. "No," he said and walked away. During the few days that remained before their exodus they were busy preparing for the anticipated vacation.
Better stay behind with Gran'pa Ripley till I kin fetch ye both." "Tom," said Polly Ann, "you kin just go back alone if you don't take Davy." So one of the Winn boys agreed to come over to stay with old Mr. Ripley until quieter times. The preparations for the wedding went on apace that week. I had not thought that the Grape Vine settlement held so many people.
It worried her to find that an occasional doubt would cross her mind in spite of her intense loyalty to her dearly loved grandparent. She would promptly drive out the doubt, but it would insist on intruding again. "Something is wrong somewhere," she sighed. "There must be some snarl that even Gran'pa Jim can't untangle; and, if he can't, I'm sure no one else can.
"It it's dreadful!" stammered the teacher, shrinking back with a moan. "It would be, if it were true," said the girl. "But Gran'pa Jim is no criminal, we all know. He's the best man that ever lived, and the whole trouble is that this foolish officer has mistaken him for someone else. I heard him, with my own ears, tell the man he was mistaken." Miss Stearne reflected.
The boy interrupted her by dragging a little jeweled watch from his bosom and showing it to Robert. "This is the watch the pretty lady gave me," he said. "I've got it now but I haven't had it long, because the jeweler who cleans it is an idle man, gran'pa says, and always keeps it such a long time; and gran'pa says it will have to be cleaned again, because of the taxes.
I wouldn't whisper this to anyone else, for no one else could understand it, but you will understand it, Gran'pa Jim, and you know my love for you doesn't prevent my still being as good an American as the average. However," continued the young girl, in a lighter tone, "I've no desire to lose you or allow the Germans to whip us, if I can help it, so I've got two battles to fight.
"Oh, Professor Dyer is all right," said Mary Louise hastily. "It was he who helped bring Mr. Herring to time, and afterward he took Gran'pa Jim's place on the Bond Committee and solicited subscriptions." "Did he get any?" "Any what?" "Subscriptions." " I believe so. Really, I don't know." "Well, I know," said Josie, "for I've inspected the records.
Gran'pa told me he dined here once, and the veal cutlets were lovely, gran'pa said. Please may I have a veal cutlet, with egg and bread-crumb, you know, and lemon-juice you know?" he added to the waiter: "Gran'pa knows the cook here. The cook's such a nice gentleman, and once gave me a shilling, when gran'pa brought me here.
"Look you, gran'pa, if I'm to quarrel with Stevens or anybody else, 'twouldn't be your pistols in my pocket that would make me set on, and 'twouldn't be the want of 'em that would make me stop. When it's my cue to fight, look you, I won't need any prompter, in the shape of friend or pistol.
At all events, let me caution you not to hint the possibility of its being otherwise. We will take for granted that Stevens is a baffled villain." "I only wish I had dropped him!" "Better as it is." "What! even if the poor girl is " "Ay, even then!" "Why, gran'pa, can it be possible YOU say so?" "Yes, my son; I say so here, in moments of comparative calmness, and in the absence of the villain.