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But Raven caught the grateful tribute of Nan's tone. "My hanky," she said, "Dickie, dear." He saw it dropped, saw Dick dart for it, and Nan, accepting it, give his fingers a little squeeze. Evidently Dick, who flushed red, was being paid for having briefly illuminated mother. Supper was got through successfully, Raven and Dick doing active service.
Uppermost in Nan's mind was the thought, to which she clung as to a sheet-anchor, that of the three witnesses to this meeting between Peter and herself, the Fentons were ignorant of the fact that she cared for him, and Maryon, whatever he might suspect, had no certain knowledge. The dreaded ordeal was quickly over. A simple handshake, and in a few moments they were all five chatting together, Mrs.
Rather than the fortune for which his father had toiled and sacrificed, Donald preferred Nan's love; rather than a life of ease and freedom from worry, he looked forward with a fierce joy to laboring with his hands for a pittance, provided he might have the privilege of sharing it with her.
He waved his hat and turned away; but the music seemed to die out of the blackbird's song, and in all the summer landscape his eyes saw nothing but the little figure at the gate. "Bless and save us! here's a flock of people coming; my hair is in a toss, and Nan's without her shoe; run! fly, girls! or the Philistines will be upon us!" cried Di, tumbling off her perch in sudden alarm.
When people in general had grown tired of discussing this strange freak and purpose of the doctor and his ward, and had become familiar with Nan's persistent interest and occupation in her studies, there came a time of great discontent to the two persons most concerned. For it was impossible to disguise the fact that the time had again come for the girl to go away from home.
"Poor old Caleb," Donald soliloquized, "you find it hard to believe it yourself, don't you? And it does sound fishy!" "I don't believe it's Nan's fault," Donald found himself saying next. "She was always a good girl, and I can't look at her now and conceive her as anything but virtuous and womanly. I'll always be a good friend of hers, Caleb.
I told her the day he came that we would treat him politely but draw the line strictly on any efforts he may make to pass the limits of acquaintance. The men who associate with Nan must belong to her father's world to your world, Jim the world of good breeding and culture. I've dinned this into Nan's ears from babyhood.
Another time you must wait, for you will get into trouble if you run away. Promise me this, or I shall not dare to trust you out of my sight," said Mrs. Bhaer, wiping the dust off Nan's little hot face. "Well, I won't, only papa tells me not to put off doing things, so I don't." "That is rather a poser; I think you had better give her some supper now, and a private lecture by and by," said Mr.
The girl was trying to control herself to keep from breaking down and crying. Somehow, she felt that that would not help her in the least. Without warning, a low voice spoke at Nan's side: "I know this girl. Of what is she accused?" Only a few beside the detective and Nan heard the words. "Of stealing something from the counter," said the man. "I should not be surprised."
Sherwood was too big to strike Gedney Raffer, and of course the latter dared not use his puny fists on the giant. The blunt club of the lumberman's speech was scarcely a match for the sharp rapier of Raffer's tongue. As the crowd laughed it was evident that the fox-faced man was getting the verbal best of the controversy. Nan's ears burned and tears stood in her eyes.
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