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"I couldn't get all of the egg out of my hat, but it's good enough. Where do we go from Riverburgh?" Jim gave a groan of mock despair. "That's the dev I mean, the deuce of it!" he exclaimed. "We've got to cross the river there someway, and go on down on the other side. We can't keep on this, or we will run into New Jersey and and I mustn't leave the State."
"You mean that that with the egg-wagon? He was givin' us a lift into Riverburgh; we're just traveling through," Lou added shortly. "Did he pick you up back near his place?" At Lou's nod the woman exclaimed: "Then you two haven't had a bite of dinner! You put your things to soak and I'll go right in the house and get you up a little something; it's past two."
Will you tell me what address will find you? You see, I want to thank you properly for all your kindness to us, and I don't know whether this is the township of Riverburgh or not." "It's the Stilton post-office," the little woman stammered. "Of course, I'd like to hear from both of you, but you mustn't thank me! I don't know what I should have done without your help with the hay!
There are two little boys near Riverburgh whose father is dead and who are trying to do the farm work of men. They are going to a good school this winter, and there are a few other people who are going to be surprised! By Jove, I never realized what money was for until now! But best of all, I found Lou!"
For a moment Jim laughed with her; then the seriousness of their situation was borne in upon him, and his face sobered. "It's the kind of an omelet that won't come off in a hurry, I'm afraid," he said. "How on earth are we going to walk into Riverburgh like this?" It was the first time that he had appealed to her, and Lou's laughter ceased also, but her cheerful confidence did not fail her.
"At the Riverburgh dock? I do, unless I'm late, an' then I have to give a couple o' them loafers around there a quarter apiece to help. I'm late to-day, an' if you ain't got any money to ride Giddap!" But Lou halted him determinedly. "If you'll give me and Jim I mean my brother a ride, he'll unload the crates for you for nothin' when we git there.
Jim had overtaken the wagon in time to hear the end of the brief conversation, and he wasted no further time in parley, but hoisted Lou up over the wheel and climbed in beside her. As the reluctant horses started off once more the driver turned to him: "Hope you're a hustler, young man; got to git them eggs off the wagon in a jiffy when we git to Riverburgh, in time to ketch the boat.
The mountains had been left behind, and all over the rolling hillsides about them on either hand the vineyards stretched in undulating lines, each heavy with the load of purpling grapes. Mile after mile passed slowly beneath the creaking wheels of the wagon; noon came, and still Riverburgh remained tantalizingly ahead.
Fearing further revelations, Jim hastily took a hand in the conversation, and he and the doctor chatted until the trolley line was reached. There, when they had descended from the little car Lou turned to Jim and asked a trifle shyly: "You you're goin' to let me ask you to ride, aren't you? You bought all the food in Riverburgh, you know."
It warn't a State institootion, you see; just a kind of a charity one, run by the deacons of the church; I ain't got much use for charity." "I shouldn't think you would have," he exclaimed. "But it's all behind you now, Lou. We made fourteen miles to-day from Highvale or will have when we walk down the hill to Riverburgh to-morrow, and it is only sixty miles further to New York."
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