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Updated: June 30, 2025
"There's one girl who does it, and she's no friend of Bet's," laughed Joy. "Oh, that Edith Whalen! She's always horrid, I wish she wouldn't call me anything. I get angry so angry that I " "Ssh! I'll tell you what she does," whispered Joy. "She scratches!" "I really don't, but I'd like to."
All their hopes had been dashed to the ground. Tears came to Bet's eyes. Angry tears! Why was it that they always had so many disappointments? Why couldn't the treasure have reposed in that chest ready for them? Why couldn't things have gone smoothly just for once? "What a silly thing to do! To bury an empty chest!" Bet said in a protesting voice. "But that's the trouble.
Then, as the gentleman in the peach coat cried, 'Curse me, if it isn't a parson! The bet's off! Off! Lord Almeric dropped his hand of cards on the table, and opening his mouth gasped in a paroxysm of dismay. 'Oh, Lord, he exclaimed, at last. 'Hold me, some one! If it isn't Tommy!
Why, he swears dreadful, and he drinks deep, and he's cruel. Ef you had seen how he treated the cabin boy when we was mates together in the `Betsy Prig' you wouldn't like the feel of knowing that a girl what you loved more than all the world should even set eyes on him. Why, he's a worse man than Bet's father, and that's saying enough." "Yes, it's saying enough," said Hester.
Kit wanted to laugh, for Bet was repeating word for word what she had read only a few days before in a western story. But Bet's next question was her own. "How much is Kie Wicks paying you for this job?" she asked. One man started to take a step forward, but Bet's gun menaced him. "Stand right where you are! Not a step nearer! Answer my question!" "Five dollars apiece!" growled the second man.
The judge was about to object, but when he saw the look of disappointment in Bet's face, he changed his mind. "Why, it's all right, I think. I don't see that there will be any danger if you stay with me." Bet ran for her horse. "Come on, girls, let's go!" The group divided into two sections. The judge and the girls and Tommy went under Kie Wicks' leadership.
Bet's heart was lighter than it had been since her mother's death; she did not despair of doing well for her brothers, and of bringing them up in such a way, and with such a due regard for religion, that by-and-bye they should meet their mother in the land where she now dwelt.
And Bet took the fan from her father, flourished it back and forth coquettishly with a flippant smile, half hidden by the fan. A chorus of laughter greeted Bet's imitation of a flirt. "Where did my daughter learn all those arts?" asked her father. "She didn't have to learn them. They came natural," sang Joy, as she danced out of the room.
Come, I shall put you on this hat of old Bet's, and you must wear this old shawl, and you must tuck up your frock, and go out to find the cress." "Oh dear! oh dear!" said Rose; "you do not mean that I should do this?" "But I do mean it, and you must go at once." Mark put on the hat and the shawl for her. She was quite still, and said not a word.
In fact it wouldn't be good for you to come back where Kie Wicks could take a shot at you." "We'd not stick around, honest we wouldn't. By night we'd be at the nearest railroad station." Both men made a motion to come toward the girls but were stopped by Bet's menacing weapon. "All right, go to the edge of the cliff there, and stand with your backs to us.
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