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Across the aisle was a family of towheaded Swedes, the father self-conscious in his carefully pressed black suit; the mother, watchful of her two mischievous, blue-eyed urchins. Young gallants of the neighborhood filled the boxes at either side of the auditorium, taking this, the most expensive, means of proving their devotion to their lady loves.
Jan, the only boy employed on the farm, a towheaded, wizen-faced yokel, was visibly at work on a potato clearing half-way up the nearest hill-side, and Mortimer, when questioned, knew of no other probable or possible begetter of the hidden mockery that had ambushed Sylvia's retreat.
she sang, and immediately from behind the willows which fringed the brook at the end of the garden two childish voices gave back an answering strain. A moment later two sunburned, towheaded, blue-eyed children, a boy and girl of ten, appeared, dragging after them a box mounted on rough wooden wheels in which there sat a round, pink, blue-eyed cherub of a baby.
Meantime his long-legged, towheaded son had come from within and stood gaping behind his father. "Vill you go back to der man mit me?" asked the German. "No," said Orme. "So? Vell, all right." "I'm sorry I can't wait," said Orme. "I've done what I could, and I have a long way to go." "Sure! Dat's all right!" "Then thank you very much. Good-night." Orme walked briskly to the road and turned west.
Ho! ho! but you was a little towheaded shaver then; and now look at you! What are you doin' away down here?" John Kendrick shook his head. "I don't know that I'm quite sure myself, Captain," he said. "I have some suspicions, of course, but they may not be confirmed. First of all I'm going over to East Wellmouth; so just excuse me a minute while I speak to the driver of the bus."
"How old are the children?" asked Roger brusquely. "I'm nineteen," replied a low musical voice, "and Billy's twelve." Roger's head suddenly jerked up. He stared past Hyram Logan and a small towheaded boy, to gaze into the warm brown eyes of Jane Logan, a slender, pretty girl whose open, friendly features were framed by neatly combed reddish blond hair.
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