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The rest of the party quickly rushed in behind me, and great were their exclamations at the scene of havoc. "I hope nothing has happened to the McKenna sisters," cried Mr. Larramie. "They must have been in here!" I did not suppose that anything serious had occurred, for the bear's jaws were securely strapped, but with anxious haste I went into the other part of the house.
I do not know what she said when she gave you her final answer, but whatever it was it was the finest compliment she could have paid you." I smiled grimly. "She likened me to a bear," I said. "Do you call that a compliment?" Edith Larramie looked at me, her eyes sparkling. "Tell me one thing," she said.
I cried, with much more excited interest than I would have shown if I had taken proper thought before speaking. "Well," said Mr. Larramie, "that is a fine point. I said 'supposed' because the facts of the case are not definitely known.
Perhaps after a while I may get out of Cathay, and then again I may ride by day." In taking my things from my valise, I pulled out the little box which the doctor's daughter had given me, but I did not open it. "No," said I, "there is no need whatever that I should take a capsule to-night." After breakfast the next day Mr. Larramie came to me.
Larramie that it was now necessary for me to hurry on, and asked if there were not some way to the hotel which would not make it necessary for me to go back to the main road. The good gentleman fairly shouted at me. "You aren't going to any hotel!" he declared. "Do you suppose we are heathens, to let you start off at this late hour in the afternoon for a hotel?
Now everybody wanted to know everything about the bear, and great was the hilarity which my account occasioned. "Come in! Come in!" exclaimed Mr. Larramie. "The bear will be all right if you tied him well. You have just time to get ready for dinner." And noticing a glance I had given to my garments, he continued: "You need not bother about your clothes. We are all in field costume.
If I should pass without stopping, some one in the lodge would probably see me, and the family would know of my discourtesy, but, although it would have been a very simple thing to do, and a very proper thing, I did not feel sure that I wanted to stop. If Edith Larramie had never said anything about it, I think I would surely have made a morning call upon the Putneys.
If the last words of the lady of the Holly Sprig meant the sweet thing I thought they meant, then did they make the words which preceded them all the more bitter. The more friendly and honest the counsels of Edith Larramie had grown, the deeper they had cut into my heart. Even the more than regard with which my soul prompted me to look back to Amy Willoughby was a pain to me.
Thereupon arose a hubbub of voices. "Not at dinner-time!" exclaimed Mr. Larramie. "We would never listen to such a thing!" "And you need not trouble yourself about your bear," cried my young lady, whose Christian name I soon discovered to be Edith. "He can live on barks and roots until we have time to attend to him. He is used to that in his native wilds."
The women will not be able to talk reasonably until it is off the premises. I will catch up with you presently." When the bear and I, with the rest of the party, were fairly out of sight of the house, we stopped and waited for Mr. Larramie, and it was not long before he joined us. When we reached the hay-barn we were met by the rest of the Larramie family, all anxious to see the bear.
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