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But he has only been over once. Now that this friend is in camp with him, maybe he'll come oftener." "If John would only bring Tom with him, wouldn't it be fine!" planned Eleanor. "Anne would have her choice, John. Bob would be supremely happy if she could flirt with Tom for a time, and you and I would have Jim and Ken Evans." Polly glanced at Eleanor in surprise, and said: "Why, Nolla!
"I never had experienced a real mountain storm, but father had, so he showed me what to do. I think I would know now just what to do in case of another surprise." "Bu-r-r-r! Let's hope you won't have to practice on us," laughed Eleanor, pretending to shiver. "Stop your nonsense, Nolla! I don't want to think of such dreadful things," cried Barbara.
"I was so hungry that I tried to get a sandwich out of the pannier, but something made a noise back in the cave, and I'm sure it was a rattle- snake buzzing!" added Barbara, trying to win sympathy from the stony- faced companions. "Pooh! You've got rattle-snake on the brain! It would have done you good to get out there with us and do some rattling of the ax on the wood!" "Why, Nolla!
Maynard's lips curled in silent derision. She understood her husband's yearning for a simple life in place of the frivolous and empty excitement of the social career she had made for herself and family. "The country about the sections I visited is beautiful and healthy, and as Nolla is ordered to a quiet, mountainous region for a time, I know of no place so suitable.
But they don't call her that. Some people call her Mrs. Rector, some mama, and Uncle Philip says Maxa to her and Leonore calls her Aunt Maxa." "Is your father the rector of Nolla?" the gentleman asked. "He has been in heaven a long while, and he was in heaven before we came here, but mama wanted to come back to Nolla because this was her home.
But how could the mother have believed him when he told her that he had seen a figure which could not possibly be human. He really felt like a traitor towards his mother. All people in Nolla believed anew that a ghost of Wildenstein went about, for the apparition had actually been seen. Kurt knew quite well that it was all his fault.
"This promises to be the luckiest thing I ever did sending Nolla to Pebbly Pit for her health!" "And wait until you see Nolla! My, but she is rosy and roly now. And besides, Mr. Maynard, she is a born financier. I love to listen to her plan and then see her work out her own schemes.
Barbara gasped, but Polly clapped her hands. "Nolla, that's it! The subterranean stream we found in there. Some big upheaval changed its outlet, or maybe this gold vein runs clean through and Montresor's claim is staked opposite this side just where the river pours out. We must look over that side to-morrow."
But they haven't the sense to know that a man-made fire is built on purpose to keep them away!" "It must be awful late, Polly! If you think everything is safe, suppose we go to bed," Anne suggested after a long interval unbroken by any howls. "All right! Let Bob and Nolla take the last two beds, while you and I take these in front.
"Oh, no, we won't postpone going up there to guard the spot!" explained Anne, anxiously. "I was wondering how long it would take that expert engineer to arrive on the ground and render a reliable verdict about the mine." Eleanor tittered. "Sure! That is all. Anne never dreamed that John Brewster might accompany the expert!" "That will do from you, Nolla!" came reprovingly from Anne.
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