Part 24 (1/2)
Again ca have you known--that I'm not Rosebud?”
”Got that bit of a letter Saturday”
”But you guessed it long before that--ere out at the slough?”
”I'd a notion”
The girl glanced round Ma's face was still in a condition of florid perplexity Rube was quietly whittling a match with his tobacco knife
Rosebud's eyes were very soft as she looked froo away fro
”Guess when a 'stray' coit it back home”
Seth found a lot to interest him in the blank wall of the barn outside the
”But it seems I'm a stray without a home My father and s--an' the dollars”
The girl also surveyed the wall of the barn
”Yes, I forgot the--dollars”
Suddenly she turned away Just for a moment she seemed in some doubt of her own purpose Then she walked over to Ma and put her arms about her neck and kissed her Then she passed round to Rube and did the same
Finally she opened the door, and stood for a second looking at Seth's slim back
”Farewell, friends The heiressharsh and hysterical about the laugh which accoone the next instant, and the door slaetful of his wounded shoulder rested her hand upon it Seth flinched and dreay; and the old woman was all syot”
”It's nothin', Ma; it jest hurts some”
CHAPTER XVIII
SETH'S DUTY ACCOMPLISHED
”It's a great country It astonishes ets used to things, I know, but this,” with a wave of the ar Indians! Bless ray-headed little lawyer sular manner in Ma Saoing clothes, was ensconced in her husband's large parlor chair, which was sizes too big for her, and slasses
Mr Charles Irvine, the junior partner of the firers, Son, and Irvine, of London, had iven himself up to leisure