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Plainly, Evadna was secretly laughing at her perturbed interest in the matter. "Thanks. I'm too many things already, and I haven't any false hair or dark lantern. And, by the way, I'm going to have the day off, Sunday. Charlie Green is coming up to relieve me. And couldn't we do something?" She glanced wearily around the little office.
He caught Evadna in the act of regarding him sidelong, just as a horse sometimes will keep an eye on the man with the rope in a corral; so he knew she was thinking of him, at least, and was wondering what he meant to do next, and the savage in him laughed and lay down again, knowing himself the master.
"He wouldn't say a blamed thing about it," Gene complained sincerely. "He said there wasn't anything he told us it was a screech-owl." "Oh!" Evadna gave a sigh of relief. "Well, I'm going to ask Clark what it was I'm just crazy about ghost stories, only I never would DARE leave the house after dark if there are funny noises and things, really.
Miss Georgie could be rather perverse herself upon occasion. She waited until Evadna was crunching cinders under her feet before she spoke another word, and then she only called out a flippant, "Adios, senorita!" Evadna knew no Spanish at all. She lifted her shoulders in what might be disdain, and made no reply whatever.
"Instead of making it harder for him by feeling neglected and letting him see that you do. My Heavens above!" Miss Georgie faced her suddenly with pink cheeks. "When a man is up against a problem and carries his life in his hand " "You don't know a thing about it!" Evadna stopped rocking, and sat up very straight in the chair. "And even if that were true, is that any reason why he should AVOID me?
She held out a beautiful, tapering forearm, and smiled. "I'm the snappy one," said Evadna, but she did not smile as she began drawing on her gauntlets slowly and deliberately. If she were waiting for Miss Georgie to come back to the subject of Grant, she was disappointed, for Miss Georgie did not come to any subject whatever.
He stopped to light a match upon the gate and put his cigarette to work before he answered her; and Evadna touched tentatively the wide, blue ribbon wound round her arm and tied in a bow at her elbow, and eyed him guardedly. "Straight up, he told me," Gene answered sourly. "He's sore over something that happened last night, and he didn't seem to have any talk to give away this morning.
"They don't get down here once a year, and then they always come to the house. You couldn't know there WAS any strawberry patch behind that thick row of trees or a garden, or anything else." "He's got a row of stakes running clear across the patch," Evadna recalled suddenly. "Just like they do for a new street, or a railroad, or something. And "
"There's four of 'em, papa!" he shouted, all in one breath. "They're jumpin' the ranch for placer claims. They said so. Each one's got a claim, and they're campin' on the corners, so they'll be close together. They're goin' to wash gold. Good Injun " "Oh!" screamed Evadna suddenly. "Don't let him don't let them hurt him, Uncle Hart!" "Aw, they ain't fightin'," Donny assured her disgustedly.
He was guilty of staring hard at that corner of the house where he knew Evadna slept, and of scowling over the vague disquiet which the thought of her caused him. No girl had ever troubled his mind before. It annoyed him that the face and voice of Evadna obtruded, even upon his thoughts of other things.
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