Part 34 (1/2)
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”We are late for dinner and my clothes are wet,” he remarked
They went out; and both were quiet as they drove to Whitelees
CHAPTER VII
THE FENCING WIRE
Nextup early because she had not slept e outside her room He went rather unsteadily downstairs and a fewon the terrace wall He was pale and his face was cut; but he had taken off the bandage
”You oughtn't to be out,” she said
”Why not?” he asked
”You were badly shaken The doctor said we , and I've been quiet all night I certainly got a knock; ilass, but I feelin bed”
Carrie gave it up She knew Ji
”I want to look at the car,” he said ”I don't knohy she left the road But how did you findhtful
”I was in the ditch with the wheel onsore How did you lift the car?”
”The others got into the ditch A wheel began to slip and I thought the weight would overpower them; but Lance Mordaunt made a tremendous effort and held up the axle until we pulled you out”
Jim knitted his brows and looked across the lahile hewas clear with scattered clouds and the grass was silvered by dew The hills were sharp and belts of light and shadow checkered the marsh In the distance, the sea sparkled
”If Jake or dick had held her up, I could have understood,” he said
”It was Lance,” Carrie insisted ”Why are you puzzled?”
”For one thing, I iesture the old house, and the sweep of smooth pasture and yellow stubble that rolled down the hill ”Perhaps it's not strange I have taken all this from him!”
”But you took it as reed ”dick's different He's careless; I don't think he feels things However, I must thank Lance” He paused and resumed: ”The boys were in the ditch and I was under the car Who pulled”There was nobody else”
Jim took her hand ”My dear! When I needed help before, you were about But that ditch is four feet deep and I'm heavy”
Carrie pulled her hand fro of a strain However, I'll co down the hill”
”To take care of me?” said Jio alone”
He got up, and seeing that his step was firo It was not a caprice that he would not take her, but when she returned to the house she sent Jake after hiht about Mordaunt Theof a puzzle, and Jim admitted that he had, perhaps, not been just when he accounted for his antagonis, but he was not altogether onis instinctively to traditions that were getting out of date In fact, Jientle sixty years since