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"But she and her father are proud, like most of the other people around here. They just have to stand on their own feet." "I wonder if they have enough to eat," mused Amy. "It would be dreadful to think of them actually hungry." "Oh, I guess there's no danger of that," said Mollie. "As long as there are wild animals in the woods and Dan Higgins and Meggy have guns they won't starve to death."
"I'm glad the poor lonely fellow has a nice girl like Meggy to befriend him." "Huh, he didn't seem to want befriending very much when we saw him," said Mollie. "We couldn't have been frozen more completely if we had dropped on an iceberg." "Oh, well, he has 'ze temperament," said Grace, with an elaborate gesture. "Seems kind of strange, his living up there all alone," said Amy thoughtfully.
But perhaps of them all, their best and staunchest friends were old Dan Higgins and his daughter, Meggy. The girls often visited the mine and were always greeted with the utmost heartiness by its owners.
They were so excited that it was hard to make their purpose clear at first, but when the old man and Meggy comprehended what they were trying to tell them, they were immediately galvanized to action. "I'll show you the best place," Betty eagerly volunteered.
But they were infinitely more sorry for this girl of his to whom hardship was a daily reality and pleasure a golden vision to be indulged in only by girls whose fathers did not own a worthless claim. "Sometimes," spoke up Mollie, as she reined Old Nick into a walk, "I wish I had the courage to rob somebody else's mine, Meggy, and plant the gold in yours.
"I have wrote," replied the old woman, giving her pocket a boastful smack, which she thus explained, "And it was the whole ten shillings this time, and you never got more for me than five." "Who wrote the letter for you?" he asked, lowering. She, too, it seemed, had promised not to tell. "Did you promise to tell nobody, Meggy, or just no to tell me," he pressed her, of a sudden suspecting Tommy.
With a terror stricken cry he leaped once more upon his horse and fled, but not without leaving his snuff-box in the hands of the derisive enemy. Meggy has long gone to the kirk-yard, but the snuff-mull is still preserved. Some ugly cuts were given and received, and heads as well as ribs were broken; but the townsmen's triumph was short-lived.
I wish you would call on the Miss Grays, and it would be a good thing upon a Saturday to dine with my mother, and take Meggy and all the family with you, and let them have their strawberries in town. The tickets of one of the old-fashioned coaches would take you all up, and if the evening were good, they could all walk down, excepting Meggy and little David." "Inverness, July 25th, 11 p.m.
"We can't take nothin' thet we can't pay fer, sir," the old fellow assured Mr. Nelson positively. But the latter reminded him that he and Meggy had saved his daughter's life, as well as those of the other girls, and that this put him, Mr. Nelson, deeply in the others' debt. In view of this the old fellow finally surrendered.
Many have desired a fortune, some political fame, others social position, but Meggy merely desired a horse. And even this had been denied her because her father had been dazzled by the lure of gold, a fortune always just before his eyes, but never to be grasped. The girls were sorry for old Dan Higgins and his thwarted hopes.
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