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"Missa Tho'ne letta all a-ready fo' mail I putta pos'age-stamp, gifa to shif'-boss. I think Sa' F'a'cisco in a mo'ning. I care fo' everything!" "Ito cares for everything," Mr. Thorne quoted, in answer to his wife's haggard inquiries. "He stamped your letter and sent it to town yesterday by one of the day-shift men." "Now what shall be done!" Mrs. Thorne exclaimed tragically.
"I'm huntin' the same sort of game you-all air, I reckon," he remarked, pushing back his hat. "But it's gone." "Squirrels?" The mountaineer regarded them with something pathetic in his eyes, and when he spoke his voice was tinged with disappointment. "Last night," he said, "I thought ye war both my friends 'n' I war a-ready ter be yourn. Why do ye want ter lie ter me?"
He dabbed his brush to and fro as he spoke. His gaunt figure towered above her in shadow. His slapping brush had a vicious sound. Neither spoke for some time. At length she said more gently, "Ain't you comin' in?" "No not till I get a-ready. You go 'long an' tend to y'r own business. Don't stan' there an' ketch cold." She moved off slowly toward the house. His voice subdued her.
And I want you to smash down hard on their everlasting, 'why didn't you do this? and 'why didn't you do that? I reckon I've been told five hundred times a-ready that I shouldn't a-give him the deeds. Josie say it, an' then she sings it. NOT GIVE THEM TO HIM! How could I help giving them to him? He'd a-got up and got them himself if I hadn't "
But Mine Own came not over to me, so that I loosed the Diskos from mine hip, and went that I be nigh to her. And she made that she saw me not; but did set the gear together, and had it presently a-ready for the journey, the while that I did look all-ways among the trees; but indeed I saw naught.
And we eat and drank, and did hark oft, and lookt out from among the bushes; but there did be naught abroad to set dread upon our spirits; and so we did be more content, and well rest and a-ready for the further journeying.
I wish though I hadn't brought ye, she continued, looking at me meditatively; 'you're a little winded a-ready, and we ain't begun the rough climbing at all. Up to this 'ere pool Winnie and me and Rhona Boswell used to climb when we was children; it needed longer legs nor ourn to get farther up, and you're winded a-ready.
"Lammas Day!" cried Alexandra, almost before the door was closed. "Gramercy, but we can never be a-ready!" "Ach! ja, but you will if you hard work," said Regina. "And the jousting!" said Ricarda. "What for the jousting?" asked Regina. "You are not knights, dat you joust?" "We should have seen it, though: a friend had passed his word to take us, that wist how to get us in."
At length she said more gently, "Ain't you comin' in?" "No-not till I get a-ready. You go 'long an' tend to y'r own business. Don't stan' there an' ketch cold." She moved off slowly toward the house. His shout subdued her. Working alone out there had rendered him savage; he was not to be pushed any further. She knew by the tone of his voice that he must now be respected.
"I guess you got to go back," she said, "and be et by me. Like as not I'll stall myself, for I got one a-ready. But if David has got these fool things counted and misses any, and then finds that pie here, he'll s'picion me. Yes, I got to take you back, and hurry my stumps at that."
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