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"Just riding through the mountains on his vacation"

"What does your mother think of him?"

"She likes him very much"

"Well, I won't make any objection, then"

Viola stared--then blushed furiously "What do youhim up here to see how I liked him?"

She pounded him with her little brown fist while tears of mortification filled her eyes "Now, you stop that! You're teasing hed silently, shaking his head "Well, these things move quickly sometimes--and hoas I to know but you'd known him in the East--you seemed so chummy-like--"

"You've spoiled everything," she wailed, deeply disturbed and painfully self-conscious "You're mean to me"

He beca Of course I was fooling It's all safe between us, anyway"

But the ain would she be the sa --that was only too plain to her now; not so young as Clinton, but not thehim to be

As they were about to start on their hoht opportunity to say: "Mr Laht, and I want to say that I don't think his influence on your faiven to fads"

Lambert replied: "I knohat you ht I don't believe in him myself, and I don't take any stock in any of his notions, but my wife does She thinks he's of the Covenant, somehoish you'd talk with her and try to have her let up on Viola I don't think they're doin' right by her If she was irl I'd stop it--I would so" Then he added, in a curious tone, this vague defence: "As for Viola, she would be all right if they would leave her alone She's gifted in a way I don't understand; but if she isn't twisted by Clarke's foolishness she's going to irl, and, as I say, if she was my own child I'd serve notice that this circle business should stop I wish you'd talk to 'elad to have ain I'd like to mill that business over with you; it's all very curious, but I'm just plumb distracted ork now"