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She crept steadily up on the leading contestants, passing Eva, Myra, and Lucy before half the length of the Parade Ground was behind them. Trix was in the lead and Pearl Harrod was fighting her for first place.
Trix Severn was noted for her skating, and heretofore had been champion of all the girls of her own age, or younger. She was fourteen nearly two years older than Agnes Kenway. But Agnes was a vigorous and graceful skater. Since the green tinge had faded out of Neale's hair, and it had grown to a respectable length, the girls had all cast approving glances at him.
He ran up to his father's room, and on the threshold encountered Trix, pale and worn with her night's watching, but wearing a peculiarly happy and contented little look despite it all. Charley did not stop to notice the look, he asked after his father. "Pa's asleep," Trix replied, "so's ma. It's of no use your disturbing either of them.
The younger girls walked up and down the court, arm in arm, eating bread an butter; others stayed in the school-room to read and gossip; but Belle, Trix, and Fanny went to lunch at a fashionable ice-cream saloon near by, and Polly meekly followed, not daring to hint at the ginger-bread grandma had put in her pocket for luncheon.
"I will! ... Run and bring your books. We won't venture into the dining-room, for the boys make such a noise that one can't hear one's own voice." There was something very sweet in the absolute surrender of self-will, and Trix, who was the most warm-hearted of mortals, promptly bounded up from her stool and flung her arms round her sister's neck. "You duck you angel!
Then Jack Ives said: "Mrs. Wentworth has promised to be my wife, Miss Queenborough." For a moment, hardly perceptible, Trix hesitated; then, with the most winning, touching, sweetest smile in the world, she said: "So you took my advice, and our afternoon walk was not wasted, after all?" Mrs.
Beatrice, who had not been thinking of Kelly at all, but remorsefully of a fellow she had persisted in misjudging, only cried the harder. "Don't don't cry like that! I Miss Lansell Trix darling!" Keith's self-control snapped suddenly, like a rope when the strain becomes too great. He caught her fiercely in his arms, and crushed her close against him. Beatrice stopped crying, and gasped.
"But, Edith, you know what I meant. Good Heavens! you don't for a second suppose " "I don't for a second suppose anything but what is good and generous of you, Charley. I know you would face your father like a like a 'griffin rampant, to quote Trix, and brave all consequences, if I would let you. But I won't let you. You can't afford to defy your father. I can't afford to marry a poor man."
"No, it isn't. But you see, Trix, it's this way: A man goes somewhere and buys a ranch or locates on a claim and starts into the cattle business. He may not own more than a few hundred acres of land, but if he has much stock he needs miles of prairie country, with water, for them to range on. It's an absolute necessity, you see.
We were very fond of one another when we were children, and he seems to remember it in spite of all he has gone through." "I am frightened to death at him," said Trix. "I know he has a large cupboard at home with the heads of all the wives he has decapitated hanging up in a row by the back hair!" "I wonder at your talking so foolishly, Beatrice. You must not be prejudiced by what she says, Harry.
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