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Or was Abigail Weatherby her girlhood friend, who had married unhappily, and then died? Somewhere in Aunt Jane's fifty-five years there was a romance, but, after all, it was not her niece's business. "I'm an imaginative goose," Ruth said to herself.
She was the kind of woman whose hands perform the more thoroughly because the heart revolts against the task. Lila, in her faded muslin which had taken the colours of November leaves, came to the kitchen doorway and stood watching her with a cheerful face. "Has Jim Weatherby gone, Cynthia?" Cynthia nodded grimly, turning her squinting gaze upon her.
"That's the way I rode when I went after old Doc Weatherby." "Only one rider," announced Grace. "Otherwise we might have reason to feel disturbed." The horse suddenly slowed down, its rider probably attracted by the light of the campfire. "Hulloa the camp!" shouted a voice. "A woman!" exclaimed Nora. "Hulloa! Come on in so we can see who you are," called Emma.
The tobacco was still soft from the moist season when Jim Weatherby, who had sold his earlier in the year, came over to help pack the large casks for market, bringing at the same time a piece of news concerning Bill Fletcher. "It seems Will met the old man somewhere on the road and they came to downright blows," he said. "Fletcher broke a hickory stick over the boy's shoulders."
Yet why were they closeted in the library so long, and how could the meeting with that insolent stranger affect Colonel Weatherby so strongly? After a long time her mother came out, looking more pallid and harassed than ever but strangely composed. She kissed Mary Louise, who came to meet her, and said: "Get ready for dinner, dear. We are late." The girl went to her room, dazed and uneasy.
Why, another second and the horses would have been over that bank yonder, with you and young Fletcher under the wagon." Christopher rose slowly from the ground and stood erect. "With me and who under the wagon? and who?" he asked in a throaty voice. Jim Weatherby whistled. "Why, to think you didn't know all along!" he exclaimed. "It was Fletcher's boy; he made Zebbadee let him take the reins.
His father used to be one of our most respectable labourers." "It would tire you, I fear, mother. Shall I give you your knitting now?" "You have a most peculiar idea about me, my child. I have not yet reached my dotage, and I don't think that a little talk with young Weatherby could possibly be much of an ordeal. Is he an improper person?"
On the afternoon when our story begins Mary Louise walked home from school and found Colonel Weatherby waiting for her in the garden, leggings strapped to his gaunt legs, the checked walking-cap on his head, a gold-headed crop in his hand. "Let us go for a walk, my dear," he proposed. "It is Friday, so you will have all day to-morrow in which to get your lessons."
"I hope to be able to send you your grandfather's address very soon," wrote O'Gorman. "You will probably stay in Dorfield; perhaps with the Conants, with whom you lived before. You might try sending Colonel Weatherby a letter in care of Oscar Lawler, at Los Angeles, California. In any event, don't forget my card or neglect to wire me in case of emergency."
"Need the shoe," he explained briefly. "Runner has one worn pretty thin." He patted the drooping neck of his mount. Hannibal walked around the dead horse carefully. The mule was only a skeleton copy of the sturdy, well-cared-for animal Drew had ridden out of Cadiz. But he would keep going until he dropped, and his rider knew it. "Any trace of Weatherby?" Drew asked.
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