Part 12 (2/2)
Jim nodded ”The fellow said he'd made a cache You're very smart
But why didn't you tell Jake?”
”I suppose I ought to have told him,” Carrie replied
He mused for a few ranted When a thing needs doing you don't talk, but get to work
Perhaps this has drawbacks; it doesn't always strike one how fine you really are”
Carrie said nothing, and he went on ”Now I coely dull You have cooked for us, and cared for us in e didn't know I'd soht--there was a jacket II couldn't find the hole” He paused and spread out his hands ”Well, that's the kind of fool I airl you are!”
”The hole had bothered er and one doesn't like untidiness”
”I've been very dull, but so has Jake,” Jiht he'dI iot there”
”I don't think he knows there is a patch,” Carrie rejoined
”It's possible,” Jiht
Her plain dress was very neat and seeh ell
Besides, it was reraceful In fact, she was prettier than he had thought
”The way you keep your clothes is rather wonderful,” he went on ”One never sees you untidy; all you wear looks just as it ought to look
One feels it wouldn't look half as well if it orn by anybody else
Yet you're generally occupied and your work's not clean I can't touch a cooking pot without getting black, and Jake gets blacker”
Carrie laughed to hide a touch of e to flatter; she saas navely following a new line of thought
”Well, we ot up quickly and gave her a suspicious glance ”I can walk to caht off and sent the boys after that chopper Looks as if you o, Jih”
”He has not had much trouble,” Jim rejoined ”However, I doubt if we could catch him, and I want the boys to move our truck at daybreak
Then, in a way, I'd sooner they didn't know Of course, I've got to tell Jake”
”You mustn't tell him I came,” Carrie said, firmly
”Why not?” Jim asked with some surprise
Carrie hesitated ”Oh, well, I don't want hiht think I was rash----”
”You were splendidly plucky,” Jim declared ”Of course, I won't tell Jake, if you'd sooner not For all that, I don't understand----”
”It isn't worth puzzling about,” Carrie answered with a smile, and they set off