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It air a long walk," and she sighed again. "Mebbe 'twon't be so cold tomorrow as it air today," cheered Andy and they lapsed into silence. The dawning of Wednesday brought one of those drab days so frequent in the lake-country. The daylight, dim even at high noon, hardly suggested a possible sun shining anywhere.
Andy nudged me and got up. 'Where are you going, Mr Ellis? she asked hurriedly. 'You're not going to-night. Auntie's made a bed for you in Andy's room. You mustn't mind me. 'Jack and Andy are going out for a little while, said the Boss. 'They'll be in to supper. We'll have a yarn, Maggie. 'Be sure you come back to supper, Mr Ellis, she said.
Daisy did, though, and Daisy knew what I was and called me 'dear Andy, and kissed me when she died." Andy was crying softly now, and Ethelyn was crying with him. The hard feeling at her heart was giving way, and she could have put her arms around this childish man, who after a moment continued: "Dick said he wouldn't tell you, so you must forgive him for that. You've found me out, I s'pose.
He wanted to know something of its practical side. Andy did not dally around the ticket seller's booth, the side shows or the crowded main entrance of the show. Once, when a small circus had visited Fairview, he had gotten a free pass by carrying buckets of water to the cook's tent. He had now a vague hope that some such fortunate chance might turn up on this new occasion.
And so I hadn't no heart to do anything more there; it seemed like I was dead; and I knowed that if I stayed there would be trouble, for I could see that Andy looked at me strange, like there was somethin' he didn't quite understand, ye may say; but I was mad, and I didn't want to take away Dora's beau, nor to have anything to do with a lad that could change his mind so easy.
"Oh, excuse me, Miss Kean," said Jimmy. "I thought you had had a recent bereavement." "Here, Judy, take off that thing," exclaimed Molly, unpinning the mourning veil in the back and snatching it off Judy's glowing face. "Molly, how can you invade on the privacy of my grief," exclaimed Judy, laughing. "Why, it's Miss Judy Kean," exclaimed Dodo Green, coming up at that moment with Andy McLean.
Andy soon discovered, however, that the present layout was on a far different scale to the second-class show he had seen at Fairview. It was a city in itself. There were well-defined bounds as to the circus proper. Ropes strung along iron stakes driven into the ground kept curious visitors at a distance.
In this state of affairs he thought it a great piece of good luck that he should have fallen in with a boy in charge of a large sum of money, whom, from his youth and inexperience, he would have less trouble in robbing than an older person. Andy had already decided how he would spend the afternoon.
He overtook him a half-mile from the ranch, and loped alongside, watching Pete with no little admiration and some envy. It struck Andy that while Pete never made much of his intent or his accomplishment, whatever it might be, he usually succeeded in gaining his end.
"You bet your pants I am, Andy.... An' so could you, poifectly well, if you'ld talk it up to 'em a little." "Oh, I wish to God I could. Not that I want to go home, now, but ...if I could get out of uniform." "I don't blame ye a bit, kid; well, next time, we'll know better.... Local Board Chairman's going to be my job." Andrews laughed. "If I wasn't a sucker...."
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