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"And, as soon as we get a regular manager in here Now that's what I tell my sister Sally, that is Mrs. Toland," she broke off to say. "Here's Barbara, home from a finishing school and six months abroad. Why couldn't she step in here? But no! Barbara'll come in now and then if it's a special occasion "
"When we came past Capehart's, and she wasn't there, I " "Oh, that's only a scratch," I hurried to assure the boy. "Barbara'll be all right." "So Jim said," he agreed soberly. "I'm afraid you're both lying to me." "All right," I climbed in beside him. "We'll go and see. She's up at your house waiting for you." As we headed away for the other end of town, he spoke again, half interrogatively,
"Barbara's goin' to the city, too, to spend the Winter with that Miss Wynne in the cottage that's under the same roof with other cottages and the bedrooms off the kitchen. I don't know how Barbara'll take to washin' in the sink, when she's always had that rose-sprigged bowl and pitcher of her ma's, but it's her business, not mine, and if she wants to go, she can.
Barbara'll take care of you and we'll have Abe home before noon to-morrow. Also, we'll arrange for a little seance with them greasers what put you and Abe in this fix." An hour later a light spring wagon with four horses, accompanied by a party of five mounted men, moved swiftly out of Republic toward the south.
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