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"Will you tell me after school?" Henry was unable to answer. Worn out with contending emotions he put his head down on the seat and cried. This did not seem like innocence. Joseph Rolfe was looking on from across the aisle, as if he wished very much to know what she and Henry were talking about. "I'll make them tell me the whole story, the wicked boys," thought Kyzie, indignantly.
She spoke in a low tone for his ear alone, but he writhed under it as if it had been a blow. "I don' know." "He is the thief," thought Kyzie. "Oh, Henry, if you've done something wrong you must know it. Tell me what it was." "I can't!" She put her lips nearer his ear. "Was it you and Joseph Rolfe together? Perhaps you both did something wicked?" "I don' know." "Was it last Friday?" "I don' know!"
She made this absurd little speech with tears in her eyes; but Kyzie and Edith dared not laugh, for mamma's forefinger was raised. Mamma never allowed them to ridicule the friendship of the two little girls, who had made believe for more than a year that they were "aunt" and "niece." The play might be rather foolish, but the love was very sweet and true.
This had been part of her history lesson a few days ago. How Kyzie did remember everything! At that moment the colored man from Georgia stood at her elbow with a steaming plate of soup. Lucy looked at him askance. Why couldn't he have been a Chinaman with a pigtail?
"Oh, we'll sit up as straight as ninepins; we'll show 'em how city boys behave," said Nate, making a bow to Kyzie. He could be a perfect little gentleman when he chose. He liked to tease Jimmy, younger than himself, but had always been polite to Kyzie. Still Kyzie did not altogether like the thought of having a boy of twelve for a pupil. What if he should laugh at her behind his slate?
I wish I could take Kyzie with me; would you dare?" "Certainly not. Katharine has not been invited. And don't make a long call, Edith." "No, mamma, I'll not even sit down. I'll just look at the zebra kitty and come right away." Mrs. Dunlee smiled. If there were many pets at Number Five it was not likely that Edith would hasten away.
Oh, see that Mexican dog, how straight his tail stands up!" "Like your hair," sighed Lucy. "If my hair would only be straight like that!" And neither of them smiled at this droll remark. "But there's one thing we must remember, Bab. I'm glad I thought of it. We must say, 'Miss' to Kyzie." "Miss what?" "Miss Dunlee. If we forget it, she'll feel dreadfully."
"You don't love flowers as well as I do, Kyzie, or you couldn't abuse them so!" This is what she often said to her learned sister after Kyzie had made "a little preach" about the beauties of botany. As they entered the hotel for luncheon, Kyzie was still thinking of the schoolhouse and the sweet-toned bell and the singular speech of Joe Rolfe, about wanting her for a teacher.
It certainly looked like a rough, wild, frightful hole; nothing more than a hole; but if there were gold down there in "nuggets," why, that was quite another matter; it became at once an enchanted hole; it was as delightful as a fairy story. "I hope it's true that they've sent for that colonel," said Kyzie. "Of course it's true," replied Nate, who did not like to have his word doubted.
The children ran, and so indeed did the older ones, for there was an excellent path all the way. "So that is the air-castle," exclaimed Kyzie, when they were all within sight of it. "It's a real house, built right in the mountain." She was right. There happened to be a great crack right here in the rocky side of the mountain, and a cunning little house had been tucked into the crack.
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