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Aydelot, Thaine has asked me to stay all night," Jo said, as the figures were forming. "It will please us all," Virginia said graciously, and Jo tripped away. When the strains of music for the last dance began Jo looked for Thaine, but he was nowhere to be found. She waited impatiently and the angry glitter in her eyes was not unbecoming her imperious air.
Leigh held up the sketch she was finishing, then pointed to the broad alfalfa acres, refreshingly green in the May sunlight. "Well, I brought down a copy of the late Miss Aydelot's will that she left with Doc Carey, who is goin' to Chiny in a few days, him an' Thaine Aydelot, Doc writes me. An' you can look over it.
"Nor storm nor stress can rob her of her beauty," he thought. "However sweet and self-sacrificing Jane Aydelot may be, the Plains would have broken her long ago." He turned about at once and came back to where Thaine stood beside his mother. "This is Jim Shirley's little girl, Mrs. Aydelot," he said, gently patting Leigh's shoulder. "That's my wife," little Thaine said gravely.
Wait till you see a Kansas boy brought in and count the cost again. Good-by." The doctor hastened away with the wounded, and Thaine helped to straighten out the forms about him and to fill the pit where they were placed in one common grave. "Wait till you see a Kansas boy brought in and then count the cost."
"Yes, yes, with the William Penn Quakers and the Pennsylvania Dutch," Schwoebel roared, striking McLearn on the shoulder. Men think of many things as the battle breaks, but never do they fight less bravely because they have laughed the moment before. Thaine was in the very front of the battle lines.
He was half a dozen years older than Thaine and Jo, a difference that would tend to disappear by the end of a decade. "We'll be good, Toddie, if you'll let us stay and you'll play with us," the children entreated, and the game began, with Thaine between Leigh and Jo. When Asher Aydelot joined the group inside Darley Champers rapped on the desk and called the men to order.
Bo Peep did not wait long, for he was getting tired. Half a dozen young men rushed toward Jo as she stood alone. But Todd Stewart let no opportunity escape him. And the dance began. A minute later Thaine came in with Leigh Shirley. Smiling a challenge at Todd, he caught Leigh's hand and swung into the crowd on the floor. The older guests were already gone.
Alford tarried but a moment with Clarke. As he spied Thaine and his comrades, he gave an instant's glance of kindly recognition to the admiring young privates, and was gone. The three involuntarily rose to their feet, as if to follow him, and from three lusty throats they sent after him the beloved battle yell of the regiment, "Rock Chalk! Jay Hawk!
As Darley reached the twist in the trail which John Jacobs always dreaded, the place Thaine Aydelot and Leigh Shirley had invested with sweet memories, he suddenly drew his rein and stared in horror. Lying in the rift with his head toward the deep waters of Little Wolf Creek lay Thomas Smith, scowling with unseeing eyes at the fast clearing sky.
Leigh did not laugh. "You are right, Thaine. I was so unhappy about it all. For since I first came to Uncle Jim's, I knew I ought not have Miss Jane's love and the farm that you would have had if she knew you." "You've known this all these years and never told even me. You silent little subsoiler!" Thaine exclaimed.
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