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When Ruth saw her lover in this strait she was like to have fallen, but when she learned that it would take but a few days of quiet and care to restore him to health, she was ready to forgive her fellow-countrymen for inflicting an injury that might result in happiness for both of them.
There must be something altogether wrong with the poor creature to make her wander about these wet woods, screeching like a loon." "I'd screech, too," said Jennie Stone, "if I'd torn a perfectly good silk dress to tatters as she has." "Think of going huckleberrying in a frock like that," murmured Ruth. "I guess you are both right. And Mr.
"If you are going to live in Cheslow you will hear all about Doctor Davison, and you would better know him at first-hand, to avoid mistakes," and his eyes twinkled more than ever, though his stern mouth never relaxed. "I expect that my new home is some little way outside of Cheslow," Ruth said, timidly. "They call it the Red Mill."
"Really, Ruth," he exclaimed one day, when they had been imprisoned by rain a whole morning, "one would think you had never seen a shower of rain before; it quite wearies me to see you sitting there watching this detestable weather with such a placid countenance; and for the last two hours you have said nothing more amusing or interesting than 'Oh, how beautiful! or, 'There's another cloud coming across Moel Wynn."
Not that Ruth would have desired to acknowledge the scenario in its present form. She felt angry every time she thought of how her plot had been mangled. But she was glad to learn all that was known about the Beach Plum Point hermit. And she had learned one most important fact. He was not a regular hermit. As Jennie Stone suggested, he was not a "union hermit" at all.
Morton," remarked Duvall. "She is thoroughly frightened. All her assurance has disappeared. She begs that she and her sister be allowed to return home at once. It seems that some relative in Rochester has offered them a home there, and they were going to join her when we intercepted them." "Then let them go," Ruth Morton exclaimed.
I am sorry that you will have two lonely meals, and hope some of the girls will dine with you. Invite them for me, and forgive me for leaving you in such unexpected solitude. "Yours lovingly, "How sweet of her to sign herself that way," thought Ruth, as she folded the note. "I do miss her, and I'm glad there's something pleasant ahead for this afternoon."
"Oh, the fairy godmother wrote me about you," laughed Ruth, "and I've looked at your picture at intervals all the way on from Chicago." "Then you know Charlotte and Dorothy, too, and we shan't seem like strangers," said Betty with great satisfaction. "I live just across the street, and I saw you come and knew Mrs. Hamilton had gone in town, so I thought I'd run over and see you."
The poor woman could go no further, so Billy again took up the story. "You know," he said, "that our kind friend Miss Ruth Dotropy has been greatly taken up about us since father went went home, and it seems that she's bin writin' to Lun'on about us, tellin' all about the wreck, an' about our mistake in goin' to sea, last trip, without bein' inspected, which lost us the insurance-money.
So it was very late when the automobile party got away from the dance at the Casino. They were late the next morning in starting on the road to Boston. Besides, there was thunder early, and Helen, having heard it rumbling, quoted: "'Thunder in the morning, Sailors take warning!" and rolled over for another nap. Ruth, however, at last had to get up.
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