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Look!" and Rebby held up the moccasin, showing a long narrow slit on the sole. "These awful rocks! I can never walk without cutting my foot, and then I can't walk at all." "I can fix it," Danna declared instantly. "Give it to me, Rebby; quick!" and the elder sister obeyed.
Lyon say. "Don't worry, Danna! I'd rather have my Dan than a dozen of their Melvinas," said Mr. Weston quickly. When London had come the previous night with the brief message from the minister that Anna was safe at his house and would stay the night there, the Westons had been vexed and troubled, and Mrs.
Rebby and Danna were eating their breakfast when Captain Benjamin Foster appeared at the kitchen door, saying that he had come to thank them for their courageous effort to aid the men in defending their rights.
But as they stopped for a brief rest under the shadow of a wide-spreading beach tree Rebby said: "Father could have overtaken us by this time, Danna, if he did not think it was right for us to go." Danna agreed cheerfully, and now both the girls felt a new courage for this perilous undertaking that was sure to tax their strength to the utmost.
Rebecca was the only one who did not think well of the plan. "I do not want Danna to go," she said over and over; and added that she should not know how to treat Melvina, or what to say to her. It was Rebecca who went with Anna to Mr. Lyon, carrying the small package containing Anna's clothing, and she brought back Melvina's carefully packed basket. Mrs.
Anna went singing about the house quite satisfied now to be herself; and Rebby and her mother smiled at each other at the happiness of the little girl. "I doubt not you have learned many things, Danna," said Rebby, a little wistfully, as the sisters sat on the broad doorstep after supper looking down at the broad flowing river. "Yes, indeed!" replied Anna confidently.
She's going to stay 'Danna, and not be like that stuck-up Melvina Lyon," she thought with delight; for Luretta did not think Anna would make a satisfactory playmate if she were going to change into a quiet, well-behaved girl like the minister's little daughter. In a few minutes the girls were beside the box that held the captive rabbits, who looked up at them with startled eyes.
"Hurry, Rebby," responded Danna, and the girls, forgetting their tired feet and lame shoulders, sped silently over the open pasture land. Danna was the first to speak, but it was in a whisper: "We need not fear, Rebby. He was after the deer." Rebby made no response. More fully than ever the elder girl realized the peril into which she had led her younger sister.
Weston, as he set Anna down in the big wooden rocker, made Anna's mother put her arms tenderly about her little daughter and say kindly: "Mother's glad enough to have her Danna home again. And now let's look at those feet." Rebby came running with a bowl of hot porridge, and the little girl was made as comfortable as possible.
We must," she added soberly, "for if we do not get home before dark Father will surely start after us." Danna was opening the package of food and made no response, but she was wondering if Rebby could really hold out until they reached the settlement. "I couldn't leave her alone," the little girl thought a little fearfully, wondering if their long journey was, after all, to end in failure.
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