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If you ever think you can care enough for me to let me come back to you, you will let me know." "When I send you the little sunflower letter Prince Quippi never answered you may come back," Leigh said lightly, but the tears were too near for the promise to seem trivial. "What is the other thing?" "I want you just once to let me kiss you, Leigh. It's our good-by kiss forever.
So Leigh dropped a flower on the waters of Grass River every day to float away to China telling her love to Prince Quippi. And oftenest it was the tawny sunflower, because it was big and strong and could tell a big love story. Thus she dreamed her happy dreams until one day Thaine Aydelot, listening to her, said: "Why my papa sent my mamma a sunflower once, and made her love him very much.
"Do you remember your Prince Quippi off in China, and your love letters, with old Grass River for postal service? Will you send me a letter down the old Kaw River when I go to the Kansas University this fall?" "A sunflower letter like I used to send to Quippi?" Leigh asked. "Any kind of a letter. I'll miss you more than anything here, except my beloved chores about the farm," Thaine responded.
Mother will know I am here and will be dragging the lake for me. This isn't like other good-bys. Of course, I may come back a Brigadier General and make you very proud of me, or I might not come at all, but I won't say that. Oh, Leigh, Leigh, may I tell you once more how dear you are to me? Will you promise again to send me the same message you sent to Prince Quippi when you want me to come back?"
She lifted her arm and began to pull the petals from a tiny sunflower that lay on the seat beside her. "Very well." There was no anger in Thaine's tone. "Do you remember the big sunflower we found to send to Prince Quippi, once?" "The one that should bring him straight from China to me, if he really cared for me?" Leigh asked.
Thaine asked gravely. "Two hundred dollars. I want to borrow fourteen hundred more and get it clear away from Darley Champers. I'm sure with a ranch again, Uncle Jim will be able to win out," Leigh insisted. "What's on it now?" Thaine asked. "Just weeds and a million sunflowers. Enough to send Prince Quippi such a message he'd have to write back a real love letter to me," Leigh replied.
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