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"Well--I'll--be--" Grant began, in blank a to free herself frorily without any tears in her wide eyes
"You--shot ly at last "You--SHOT ain
Before he answered, he drew backward a step or two, sat down upon the edge of a rock which had rolled out fro her fast, as if he half believed her capable of soaring away over the treetops, after all
"I guess I didn't ave me Did I hit you at all?"
"Yes, you did! You nearly brokebrute! Look what you did--and I never harmed you at all!" She pushed up a sleeve, and held out her ar a tiny, red furrohere the skin was broken and still bleeding "And you shot a big hole right through Aunt Phoebe's sheet!" she added, with tearful severity
He caught her arm, bent his head over it--and for ait; an iered him more He dropped the ararded the wound with ht you have to prowl around shooting at people," she scolded, seeing how close she could co any but a pleasurable pain
"Just as ht and go ahowling all over the ranch wrapped up in a sheet," he retorted ungallantly
"Well, if I want to do it, I don't see why you need concern yourself about it I wasn't doing it for your benefit, anyway"
"Will you tell me what you DID do it for? Of all the silly tomfoolery--"
An iel look for an instant, then vanished, and left her a pretty, abused rieved at harsh treatment
"Well, I wanted to scare Gene," she confessed "I did, too I just know he's a cowardy-cat, because he's always trying to scare ME It's Gene's fault--he told o, before Uncle Hart settled here, a lot of Indians waylaid a wagon-train here and killed a girl, and he says that when the h the grove and wails like a lost soul in torment He says sometimes it comes and moans at the corner of the house where uess he forgot So I thought I'd see if he believed his own yarns I was going to do it every night till I scared hi in the house I had a perfectly lovely place to disappear into, where he couldn't tracearound--only he wouldn't dare" She pulled down her sleeve very carefully, and then, just as carefully, she pushed it up again, and took another look