It 's got to be
done, and the sooner I get at it the easier I'll feel. Fact is, I put
in a large portion of the night thinking out my plans."
"I wish you would give it up all together, Bob," she said, anxiously.
"I shall be so dull and lonely here while you are gone."
"I reckon you will, for a fact, as it's my private impression that
lovely Miss Spencer does n't exert herself over much to be entertaining
unless there happens to be a man in sight. Great guns! how she did
fling language the last time she blew in to see me! But, Naida, it
isn't likely this little affair will require very long, and things are
lots happier between us since my late shooting scrape. For one thing,
you and I understand each other better; then Mrs. Herndon has been
quite decently civil. When Fall comes I mean to take you East and put
you in some good finishing school. Don't care quite as much about it
as you did, do you?"
"Yes, I think I do, Bob." She strove bravely to express enthusiasm.
"The trouble is, I am so worried over your going off alone hunting
after that man."
He laughed, his eyes searching her face for the truth.
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