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"What are you all looking so solemn about?" demanded Bob, when Babbie had gone in search of Roberta. Betty told her, and Babe and Bob exchanged glances. "It's not necessarily any one in this house who's responsible, I guess," said Babe. "Babbie's lost a valuable pin too, and Geraldine Burdett has lost a ring. Oh, about two weeks ago Gerry's was taken, and Babbie's before that.
"Na, na," agreed Nanny, again losing Babbie's sarcasm. "I winna let on. It's so queer to be befriended by an Egyptian." "It is scarcely respectable," Babbie said. "It's no," answered simple Nanny. I suppose Nanny's unintentional cruelty did hurt Babbie as much as Gavin thought. She winced, and her face had two expressions, the one cynical, the other pained.
Jed actually staggered. She was not looking at him, nor did she look at him now. "Eh?" he cried. "Why why, Ruth, what what ?" She smiled faintly. "And that was a foolish question, too," she said. "Foolish to ask you, of all men. . . . Well, I must go on and get Babbie's breakfast. Poor child, she is going to miss her Uncle Charlie.
They had been talking since eight. Charles and his sister had had a long conversation following Captain Hunniwell's visit and then, after a pretense at supper a pretense made largely on Babbie's account the young man had come straight to the shop and to Jed. He had found the latter in a state of extreme dejection.
Perhaps she got frightened and didn't notice Babbie's money on that account or didn't have time to snatch up anything but the pin." Just then Babbie appeared, bringing Roberta and Rachel Morrison who had met them in the hall, and in the general attack upon the fudge pan more serious issues were forgotten. It was now the busiest, gayest part of the long fall term.
Then she must have screamed had she had the power. When he tied that neckerchief round her mouth he prolonged her life. Then came the second hurricane of rain, so appalling that had Babbie's hands been free she would have pressed them to her ears. For a full minute she forgot Dow's presence. A living thing touched her face. The horse had found her.
"If He thinks fit." The figure drew nearer, and with every step Babbie's distress doubled. "We are walking straight to him," she whispered. "I implore you to wait here until he passes, if not for your own sake, for your mother's." At that he wavered, and she heard his teeth sliding against each other, as if he could no longer clench them.
The Moonshiners had spent so much time admiring Babbie's brownies that they had to hurry through the supper and even so it bid fair to be after ten before they reached the campus. Betty, Bob, and Madeline happened to get back to the horses first and were waiting impatiently for the rest to come when Bob made a suggestion. "Mr. Ware is helping stamp out the fire.
That was just before the ten o'clock bell began to ring. The little minister bowed his head in assent when Babbie's cry, "Oh, Gavin, do you?" leapt in front of her unselfish wish that he should care for her no more. "But that matters very little now," he said.
His horse went off easily enough, but Babbie's balked and then reared, and Betty's lay down first and then kicked viciously, when she and Babbie between them had succeeded in getting him to stand up. Finally Madeline broke her crop in getting him over the side, and when Black Beauty had also been sent ashore the ferry lurched a little and floated.
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