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"Who's reminiscencing now?" asked Pa belligerently. Everybody laughed. Then Pa sighed. "Well, I feel almost reconciled now to Bill's giving up farming. When're you going to be married?" Lydia blushed. "Oh, not for a long time. Now, let's go and tell my people, Billy." Out in the night again! Curious how long the short walk to the cottage could be made!

"But we haint seen no guerrillas yit," said Harry Joslyn and Gid Mackall, whose minds seemed more fascinated with that species of an enemy than any other, and they apparently voiced the minds of the rest. "When're we likely to see some guerrillas?" "O, the guerrillas are layin' purty low now, betwixt here and Nashville," Si carelessly explained.

"'Twould do them good," said Ditte, setting to work again. She was very dissatisfied with the result of her father's visit. "When're you going to arrange about the auction?" she said stiffly. "They'll see to that," answered Lars Peter quickly, "I've seen the clerk about it. He was very kind." Lars Peter was grateful for this, he did not care to go to the magistrate.

We always will have 'em. Like old age." Then he made computations with a stubby pencil and asked reflectively: "When're you coming out of overdrive?" Patrolman Willis told him. Sergeant Madden nodded. "I'll take another nap," he observed. "We'll be there a good twenty-two hours before the Aldeb." The little squad ship went on at an improbable multiple of the speed of light.

"Guess one darn fool's enough playin' this game. When're you coming along to home?" "Maybe a week." The reply was prompt. "An' you'll bring her along with you?" The eyes of the two men met. Each was reading the other like an open book. Jeff shook his head. Somehow there was nothing absurd to him in Bud's suggestion.

"The whole trouble with me," she added, explanatorily, "is that I haven't budged from home in three months, and I'm simply bored deaf and dumb." Hen might have replied that she hadn't budged for three years, but what was the use? She said instead: "When're you going to sail for Europe. May?"