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This trapper Hillery's wife had run away with another man some years before, leaving him with a little daughter on his hands, a child of about five years, called Louise." Again he paused, coughing. The Halsteads, mother and daughter, sat spell-bound, but Willa was outwardly the coolest person in the room.
Angie gasped, but made no comment and it was Vernon alone who echoed his mother's assurance in sincere enthusiasm. "Thank you," Willa said simply. "You are all more than kind, but you realize, of course, that I should feel like an interloper; my place is no longer here." "But, my dear, it will not do to be too hasty!
Once across the bridge, Dan led the big car far out to a sparsely built-up section of Flatbush and there at last his object was achieved. A loud report echoed behind them and glancing over her shoulder Willa saw the big car swerve and come to an abrupt halt in the ditch. "Tire burst!" she announced. "Luck is with us, Dan!" "It was, in the shape of some broken glass!" Her ally retorted grinning.
"Yes, and they tried to kill each other all the way down old Rosa and Tia Juana, I mean," interrupted the other. "Them Federal officers told Hen they'd rather have had charge o' two wild cats! Them and the other government fellers got there while that bunch o' robbers was out on a trip inspecting the oil well." Willa nodded.
They must have gone on the very day you started for New York, and no one has been able to discover a trace of them, except one. That is a very significant trace indeed, though. Have you no curiosity about the Pool?" He turned to her suddenly, but Willa could not raise her eyes to meet his now. "Of course," she stammered.
He was berfit, an' had his jecket an' weyscot aff, an' his gallaces lowsed i' the front an' tied roond his weyst. "We've won the toss, Sandy," says he, "an' the Collie Park's genna handle the willa first. We've sent them in to see what they'll mak'." Sandy took me up the brae a bit, an' I got set doon on the girss wi' Nathan aside me.
Beekman, will call to-morrow and I shall present my apologies in person at the earliest possible moment, if I may. "Very sincerely and regretfully, Willa mused so long that Welsh finally asked, with a deferential cough: "Any answer, Miss? The messenger is waiting to know." "No. Yes! Just a moment!" She seated herself at the desk and wrote rapidly: "My Dear Mr. Thode;
Well, it's saved me a world of bother. If kids don't like me I don't like them, so that's an even score. But that certainly is a handsome child." Jims chose this moment for waking up. He opened his big brown eyes and looked at Mrs. Matilda Pitman unblinkingly. Then he sat up, dimpled deliciously, pointed to her and said solemnly to Rilla, "Pwitty lady, Willa, pwitty lady." Mrs.
"She she's just a woman that stays on here because there ain't any other place for her to go, Ma'am. She does odd jobs when she can find any to do and the missus helps her out now and then, but she ain't the kind you'd want anything to do with. The missus'll tell you if you ask her." "I understand," said Willa quickly.
It was a weary holiday for Willa and she sat through the elaborate formal dinner with which the Halsteads celebrated it in an abstraction of mood which gave two of her callow admirers much concern. The presence of Kearn Thode's sister, however, brought her out of her reverie and later, when Mrs.
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