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It was about that time that Lily was exchanged into the town near the camp, and Willy Cameron suddenly found life a stale thing, and ashes in the mouth. He finally decided that he had not been such a hopeless fool as to fall in love with her, but that it would be as well not to see her too much. "The thing to do," he reasoned to himself, "is, first of all, not to see her.
It was so funny when Lucy asked whether the thing chosen was animal, vegetable, or mineral? and Willy replied, "All three," for he explained in a whisper, there was always salt in hash, and salt was a mineral. "Have you all seen it?" questioned Lucy. "Lots of times," shouted the children, and there was much laughing.
"And I remember what a plug we thought my room-mate was because he wouldn't come with us." He nodded significantly toward the amused Kellogg. "Not him!" cried Willy, expostulant. "Not really? Why it cawn't be!" "Fact," Duncan assured him. "He was working his way through college, you see, whereas I was working my way through my allowance and then some.
The girl caught the tiny wavelets in her outstretched hand and said that Corydon had become blind. "Do you like Willy Forrest?" she asked, "do you think he is clever, Alban?" a question, the answer to which would not interest her at all if it did not lead to others. Alban, in his turn, husbanding the secrets, replied evasively: "Why should I think about him? He is not a friend of mine.
Chief Willy gave the lad a quick glance and grunted when he saw his captive looking up at the sun. The chief then uttered a series of grunts, which the younger Indian interpreted as meaning that they would soon reach their destination. Tad was somewhat relieved to hear this, for he ached all over from his many hours in the saddle. Then again he was sleepy and hungry as well.
"We wanted to get through to-day," she added nervously, "so Miss Willy can start on Jinny Pendleton's dress the first thing in the morning."
She wished above all things to hear what he had done with the extravagant cheque her father had sent him. "I drove the ponies for a change," she said coldly, "we must not be unkind to dumb creatures. Do you know, it is most improper that you should be seen with me in this carriage, Willy. Just think what my father would say if he heard of it."
In the kitchen near the stove the suit she meant to be married in was hung to dry, after pressing. She was quietly happy. Willy Cameron found her there. He told her of Mrs. Davis' death, and then placed the license on the table at her side. "I think it would be better to-morrow, Edith," he said.
But, Willy, the supports of life are not to be found in primeval rocks or antediluvial remains.
"Yes," he thought he heard a sound, and it seemed to be almost ahead, but yet it seemed to come from a long way off. "It is only fancy after all," observed Paul. The other men for'ard could hear nothing. A few minutes passed. "What is that?" exclaimed Willy, with startling energy. "There seems to be a great white wall rising up before us."
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