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"Let me get you a big diamond!" "No a plain gold band." "It's all settled then?" "We're engaged. You're my fiance." "But for God's sake, Kiddo how long do I have to be a fiance?" A ripple of laughter rang through the trees. "Don't you think we've done pretty well for seven days?" "I could have settled it in seven minutes after we met," he answered complainingly. "You won't tell me the day yet?"
Dale hesitated a moment to make sure of his bearings. "Well, then, come along. I know where that is. And you forget 'bout your Cynthia. You've got another doll, haven't you? If you haven't, you just ask Santa Claus for one. Why, say, kiddo, what's this? You lame?" For the little girl skipped jerkily at his side.
"Nothin' doin', kiddo," came the answer, as the chauffeur measured with hard, wise eyes the crumbling edge of the road and the downfall of the outside bank. "Then we camp," Billy announced cheerfully. "I know the rules of the road. These animals ain't automobile broke altogether, an' if you think I'm goin' to have 'em shy off the grade you got another guess comin'."
"Could you dally with a rice cake, kiddo?" asked Roy, as he deftly stirred up some rice and batter. "Sling me that egg powder, Tom, and give me something to stir with not that, you gump, that's the fever thermometer!" "Here's a fountain pen," said Pee-wee; "will that do?" "This screw-driver will be better," said Roy. "Here, kiddo, make yourself useful and keep turning that in the pan.
Quit your coughing, there, hon; this ain't no T.B. hop we're going to." "No what?" "Come along; hurry! Look at the crowd already." "This ain't no what did you say, Charley?" But they were pushing, shoving, worming into the great lighted entrance of the hall. More lurching, crowding, jamming. "I'll meet you inside, kiddo, in five minutes. Pick out a red domino; red's my color." "A red one? Gee!
He held her gaze in silence for an instant and fenced. "Isn't that a funny question, Kiddo?" he said in low tones. "I once heard the old man I worked with in the shop say that you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth." "I just want to know," she insisted. "I'm not going to tell you!" he said with a dry laugh. "Why not?" "Because you keep asking." "You wish to tease me?" "Maybe." "Please!"
"When we talk it over tonight with that five thousand dollars in gold shining in her eyes I'm going to show her a lot o' things she never saw before, Kiddo take it from me!" She answered in slow, even tones: "I can't live with you, Jim." The blue flames beneath the drooping eyelids were leaping now in the yellow glare of the candle's rays. The muscles of his body were knotted.
He drew an enormous fur coat from the car and held it up for her arms. "You think I'll need that?" she asked. His white teeth gleamed in a friendly smile. "Take it from me, Kiddo, you certainly will!"
"That's three steins you've had, Blink. And there's no telling what you filled up on those three times you went out." "It's Christmas Eve, kiddo. What kind of a good time do you want for your money? A Christmas tree trimmed in tin angels?" "Do I? You just bet your life I do." "Then let me get it for you, sugar-plum.
The Swannanoa had become a silver thread of laughing, foaming spray and deep, still pools beneath the rocks. The fields were few and small. The little clearings made scarcely an impression in the towering virgin forests. "Great guns, Kiddo!" he exclaimed, "this is some country! By George, I had no idea there was such a place so close to New York!" She looked at him with uneasy surprise.
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