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Hooley shouted his orders as needed. Fortunately for the success of the scene, Onehorse did not need the admonitions of Ruth to "keep in the picture." The point came where he made his leap for the shoulders of the white man, and it was timed exactly. The two came to the brink of the rock in perfect accord with the appearance of Wonota on the ground below.
A red spot glowed on each pallid cheek; she raised her eyes and said with simple fervor, "I would die for you." "No, but you may live for me," laughed Ruth, rising; "will you promise me to go out this morning, just for a block or two?" "I promise you." "Well, then, good-by." She held out her hand meaningly; a little fluttering one was placed in hers, and Ruth bent and kissed the wistful mouth.
She was as red as any rose; her looks dropped down to the ground. They were not raised when, half an hour afterwards, she said, "You won't forbid my going to see Ruth, will you? because if you do, I give you notice I shall disobey you."
Ruth retired to superintend the preparation of the tea-table within-doors, and Rachel followed her. In their absence he got on better, but it was almost as great a relief as he had ever known to find that the concert at last was over, and that he could give unrestrained attention to the thoughts which pressed upon him.
He deserves every happiness, and he need never know!" The Harvester's laugh raised to an angry roar. "You simpleton!" he cried roughly. "Do you know so little of human passion in the heart that you think love can be a successful assumption? Good Lord, Ruth! Do you think a man is made of wood or stone, that a woman's lips in her first kiss wouldn't tell him the truth?
"And I almost believe, Tommy Cameron, that you knew I was starting for town and came along just to give me a lift." He grinned at her. "Don't you think you're mighty important?" he teased. "Suppose I haven't anything else to think about but you girls?" Just the same, Ruth stuck to this belief. But she had to confess that she was glad of the ride to town.
She obediently swallowed the dose; and as he drew up an easy-chair and seated himself, the drawn lines on her face relaxed. "It is so strengthening to have you here," she murmured. "It will be more strengthening for you to close your eyes." Ruth, who still stood in her wet clothes, lowered the lights. "You had better change your clothes immediately," said Kemp, in a low tone from his chair.
Those that knocked the chocks out from under that heap of logs? You don't suppose that avalanche of timber started all by itself?" "I don't know what you are talking about, Mr. Hooley," declared Ruth Fielding. "And surely," Helen added quickly, "you do not suppose that it was her fault? She might have been killed."
He was suddenly conscious that his present state of determination was the result of a battle, and that the war was not yet ended. "She is so beautiful, that Mrs. Weatherley," Ruth continued, clasping her hands together and looking for a moment away from her surroundings. "No one could be blamed for climbing a little way out of the dull world if she held out her hands.
She was younger than the twins and did not mean to be a wet blanket on their fun at any time; but admiring Helen so much, she often gave up her own inclinations, or was won by the elder girl from a course which she thought wise. There had been times during their first term at Briarwood Hall, now just completed, when Ruth had been obliged to take a different course from her chum.
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