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"Ah!" she observed, with majestic irony, "the lost key is found, it would seem." Jed looked guilty. "Yes, ma'am," he faltered. "Er yes, ma'am." "So? And now, I presume, as it is apparent that you do show the interior of this house to other interested persons," with a glance like a sharpened icicle in the direction of the Armstrongs, "perhaps you will show it to my husband and me."
Jed was plainly determined not to speak. Mattie felt half angry with him. She did not choose to make a martyr of herself to romance, and surely the man didn't expect her to ask him to marry her. "I'm sure and certain he's as fond of me as ever he was," she mused. "I suppose he's got some ridiculous notion about being too poor to aspire to me. Jed always had more pride than a Crane could carry.
Jed realized that it would never work again, not while she was here, for she had turned the joke into beauty and made them all enjoy it. It hadn't annoyed her in the least.
It's easy for you to say 'give up. What do you know about it?" It was the last straw. Jed sprang to his feet so suddenly that his chair fell to the floor. "Know about it!" he burst forth, with such fierce indignation that the captain actually gasped in astonishment. "Know about it!" repeated Jed. "What do I know about givin' up my own plans and and hopes, do you mean? Oh, my Lord above!
"Oh, Wango is a regular pest for playing tricks!" said Miss Winkler. "I tell Jed, every day, that I won't have the monkey around any longer, but I always give in and let him stay. Now if he was as nice and quiet as the parrot it would be all right." And just then the parrot began to screech and to cry: "No tramps allowed! Sic 'em, Towser!"
By this time her anxiety was so great for Gardley that all thought of how she was to supply the place of the absent Jed had gone from her mind, which was in a whirl. Gardley! Gardley! If only Gardley would come! That was her one thought. What should she do if he didn't come at all? How should she explain things to herself afterward? What if it had been true?
And, besides, whoever else she may have told, she certainly had told him that Middleford had formerly been her home and he had told Maud and Jed. Of course they would say nothing if he asked them, but perhaps they had told it already. And why should Mrs. Armstrong care, anyway? "Let folks talk," he said that evening, in conversation with his daughter. "Let 'em talk, that's my motto.
He says the other girls treated him nicely, but the old lady, she has got it bad. He says that she just languishes on a sofa, cuts into the conversation now and then, and simply swells up. She don't let the old man come into the parlor at all. Jed says that when the girls were describing their trip through Europe, one of them happened to mention Rome, when the old lady interrupted: 'Rome? Rome?
He said he would remain with them until the next morning, and promised to take back such letters as they might write. "If you stay over you might as well go on a hunt with us," said Snap, and then he related how their meat had been stolen. "Wildcats did that," announced Jed Sanborn, after a close examination. "Two on 'em -most likely mates. It will be a ticklish job trying to track 'em."
He did not care to say anything about the picture-taking for his father. "Do you expect to come out that way?" "I might." "If you do you must hunt us up," put in Snap. "I'll do thet, sure pop," answered Jed Sanborn. He started off, then turned back. "Oh, I say!" he called. "What is it?" asked Whopper. "It's about thet pesky Ham Spink," went on the old hunter. "Did I tell ye about my spring?" "No.
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