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Be there at seven, and perhaps who knows? perhaps Chops may meet somebody he's rather fond of." "And again perhaps he mayn't," said Toby, suppressing a dimple. "Oh, I say, that's shabby! You'll give him the chance anyhow?" The pleading note sounded in Bunny's voice. Toby suddenly dropped her eyes. She looked as if she were bracing herself to refuse. Bunny saw and quickly grappled with the danger.
"He only had himself to thank." Toby's look was puzzled, oddly pathetic. "But he's such a king," she said. "I don't suppose he'd ever think of that." Again Bunny's arm tightened about the narrow shoulders. There was something about her that appealed to him very deeply, something he sensed rather than saw. "Haven't we talked about other people's affairs long enough now?" he suggested.
The genuine appreciation in Bunny's voice brought an icy glimmer of amusement to the elder man's eyes, but he made no verbal comment. Again a silence fell, and Bunny came strolling back, a smile on his handsome boyish face. "Fine place this," he remarked presently. "It's a pity Saltash is here so little. He only comes about three times a year, and then only for a couple of nights at a time.
I thought I should have gone mad!" For the moment she had forgotten Nelly's offences, and only remembered that she had been Bunny's friend. Nelly looked back at her as aghast as herself. "Croup! I never thought of such a thing," she responded. "He has never had it before, has he?" "Never. That was why I was so terrified. I didn't know what to do. There, don't look so frightened about it!
Sue brought a light blanket from her bed and one from Bunny's, and in these the children wrapped themselves, and stood by the window. "There he is!" cried Bunny, as he saw the tall figure of his father, accompanied by a bigger shadow in the moonlight, appear on the lawn. "Hush!" cautioned Sue. "Don't talk so loud or mother will come up and make us go to bed."
Surely enough, there was a little hole in the tent, right over Bunny's cot, and the rain was coming in there. "Swish!" went the lightning. "Bang!" went the thunder. "Whoo-ee!" blew the wind. It was certainly a bad storm at Camp Rest-a-While. "Daddy! Daddy!" cried Sue, from behind the curtain, in the part of the tent where she slept with her mother. "Daddy, do you think we'll blow away?"
But I haven't seen him since he was in your camp. I wish I did have him now. I'd make him step lively, and do some work!" So Mr. Brown had his trip for nothing. Tom was not at the Trimble farm, that was sure. "I guess he ran away from you the same as he did from me," said Mr. Trimble as Mr. Brown turned away. Bunny's father shook his head. "Tom Vine isn't that kind of boy," he said.
The rain still leaked in through the hole in the tent, but Tom Vine moved Bunny's cot out of the way, and set a pail under the leak. All at once there sounded a banging noise, as if a whole store full of pots and pans and kettles had been turned upside down. "Oh, what's that?" cried Mother Brown. "Sounded as if something blew away," said Uncle Tad. "I'll get up and look."
"But we ought to do something," said Bunny. "It's so hot " That gave Sue an idea. "We could go paddling in the brook, and get our feet cooled off," said Bunny's sister. "Yes, but we wouldn't be back here in time to get our bread and jam." "That's so," Sue agreed. It would never do to miss "jam-time." "My doll must be hot, too," Sue went on. "I wonder if we could give her a bath?" "How?"
Had Nurse been at dinner that day she might have been warned of coming events by Bunny's excellent behavior; by Bob's rigid refusal to partake twice of an unwholesome compound, which went by the name of iced pudding; by Firefly's anxiety to be all that a good and proper little girl should be. But Nurse, of course, had nothing to say to the family dinner.
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