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I likes ye, in course, but I'm only a leetle gal, an' I haint keerin' fer any one ... thet erway. I ... I don't enjoy fer ter hyar yo' say sech words ter me now, Juddy." "I reckon yo'r right, an' I shouldn't hev told ye yet, Rose," answered the man, almost humbly. "I kin bide my time, but I wants ye ter know thet I feels es I does.
Do you know what this snow reminds me of? That awful night on the mountain when I went down to Fayville to telegraph for you and you came." For a moment they both sat in silent memories, then Rose added, "Dear little Lou, I wonder how she is getting along now ... and Juddy, too.
Jimmie climbed over the top of the "robber's cave," as Sunny Boy had done, and down on the other side. The children heard him scuffling about, kicking the hay with his feet, and then suddenly he gave a shout. "You stay where you are till I come back," he called. "You David, and Juddy, keep the others where they are. I'll bet I've found him."
Yo' know, an' Juddy, he knows ..." to Donald there seemed to be some special significance in her words, "thet thar haint a-goin' ter be nary a drap o' thet devil's brew in house o' mine. Why, I be plumb s'prised at ye, grandpap." The tremendous old man rubbed his whiskers faster and hemmed apologetically.
Feminine instinct gave Rose an intuitive insight into the real reasons which underlay Donald's apparent flight; but pride sealed her lips, just as she was on the point of explaining triumphantly that the doctor had been called back home that day, and that it was the following summer when he would return. "Juddy," she said gently, after a moment, "yo' hed no reason fer doin' what yo' done.
'That born devil, Juddy Carrol, blazed forth. O'Flaherty, afterwards, 'pushed open the door; it served me right for not being in my bed-room, and the door locked though who'd a thought there was such a cruel eediot on airth bad luck to her as to show a leedy into a gentleman, with scarcely the half of his clothes on, and undhergoin' a soart iv an operation, I may say.
You used to call me 'Juddy. But now that I'm grown up, I think I like Mary Josephine better, though you oughtn't to be quite so stiff about it. Derry, tell me honest are you AFRAID of me?" "Afraid of you!" "Yes, because I'm grown up. Don't you like me as well as you did one, two, three, seven years ago?
I ... I keers so much thet I believes I'd rather see ye dead then thet, Rose gal." Fairly trembling with the sweep of his unloosed emotion, the reserved, strong-willed man paused, and, as the girl stood up hastily, she was trembling, too. "Why, Juddy," she cried softly, distress in her voice, "I didn't rightly understand thet yo' felt thet erway.
Keate was the Torpedo Lieutenant of the big "Vortigern", and he despised small things. "His top-hamper," said he slowly. "Oh, ah yes, of course. Juddy, there's a shoal of mullet in the bay, and I think they're foul of your screws. Better go down, or they'll carry away something." "I don't let things carry away as a rule. You see I've no Torpedo Lieutenant on board, thank God!"
Once again Donald attempted to save her still greater distress by a white lie. "I chanced to stumble on his hidden still, Smiles, and he thought that I would betray him." "Oh, Juddy," cried the girl wringing her hands, "I've been erfeerin' this.
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