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"You're there, Ri-Ri absolutely there," he vowed. "But where, I wonder " He broke off. His look held both surmise and a shrewd suspicion. "I guessed," said Maria Angelina hastily. "And I saw her the first evening in New York. .
Ta tump ti tum ti tump tump what do those words of yours mean?" "Perhaps this Barry Elder," said Ri-Ri with averted eyes, her hands fluttering the pages, "perhaps he is the one that Leila Grey's attention was upon. Did you not hear that?" "Who? Barry?" "Has he not," said the girl desperately, "become recently more desirable to her more rich, perhaps "
Me?" said Ruth amazedly. "Gee, what do you want me to do fan her? Let Johnny do it," and cheerfully she went on photographing a group upon a fallen log, and Mrs. Blair went on with the lawyer from Washington who was a rapid walker. And Ruth, with the casual thought that neither Ri-Ri nor Johnny Byrd would relish such attendance, promptly let the thought of them dissolve from her memory.
We must not wait any more. It is too late now. We must get down as soon as we can." "Why, you little baby!" Johnny Byrd moved nearer to her. "What you 'fraid of, Ri-Ri? We can't help how late it is, can we?" He put an arm about her and drew her gently close, and because she was so tired and frightened and upset Maria Angelina could no longer resist the tears that came blinding her eyes.
"Climb too much for her, and very sensibly they've turned back." "If I could only be sure. If I could only be sure she wasn't hurt or lost," said Mrs. Blair doubtfully. "Lost!" Bob Martin derided. "Lost on a straight trail. Not unless they jolly wanted to!" "Don't spoil the party, mother," was Ruth's edged advice. "Ri-Ri hasn't broken any legs or necks. And she wasn't alone to get lost.
"Well, don't begin, then. Let's finish. Let's get married. I do want you, Ri-Ri I want you like the very deuce. After you had gone Gee, it was an awful night when I got over my mad. And coming down the mountain this morning I didn't know what I was going to find! .
"Little hard on the sister unless she is a raving, tearing beauty," said the intuitive Miss Martin with a laugh. "Perhaps they are sending Maria Angelina away to keep her in abeyance!" "Perhaps," Mrs. Blair assented. "At any rate, with this preliminary experience, I fancy that little Ri-Ri will make quite a sensation over there."
She tried to draw away, and suddenly he let her go and gave a short, unsteady laugh. "It's all right, Ri-Ri you're my little pal, aren't you?" he murmured. Unseeingly she nodded, drawing a long, shaken breath. Then as he started to draw her nearer again she moved away, putting up her arms to her hair in a gesture that instinctively shielded the confusion of her face.
"Sure, I've got it down. Well, I'll be off then!" But Johnny was not off. He hesitated a moment, turning very obviously to Maria Angelina, who stood silent upon the doorstep, and it was Barry who took himself suddenly off around the corner of the cabin, with a plate of scraps for the vociferous Sandy. Embarrassedly Johnny muttered, "I say, Ri-Ri, I'm sorry." Her expression did not change.
You know you were speeding like a two-year-old on the home stretch." But Ri-Ri refused to shoulder all that blame. "It might have been before the storm while we were lingering so," she urged distressfully. "You know that for so long we had heard nothing we ought to go back quickly very quickly and find that crossing." Johnny did not look back.
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