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Lovers, it would seem, require much less material for a quarrel than persons in a less exalted frame of mind

Good Indian believed hiel, and was very much inclined to let her know it, but at the same tiie's rocking-chair, if he liked, and he could not quite bring hi so It hu, and he was the type of man who resents humiliation more keenly than a direct injury

As to Evadna, her atnani so hu to anyone who is at all sensitive to at enough to chirp a coie, and to explain just why she couldn't stay a er "I told Aunt Phoebe I'd be back to lunch--dinner, I mean--and she's so upset over those horrible men planted in the orchard--did Grant tell you about it?--that I feel I ought to be with her And Marie has the toothache again So I really o Good-by--come dohenever you can, won't you?" She s-skirt daintily as she turned away "You didn't say goodby to Georgie," she re use of the chirpy tone "I hope I am not in any way responsible"

"I don't see how you could be," said Good Indian calmly; and that, for some reason, seemed to intensify the atmosphere hich Evadna chose to surround herself

She led Huckleberry up beside the store platfor Grant a chance to help, e--a roll notat least four ounces, which brought an ironical smile to his lips But she could not hope to outrun him on Huckleberry, even when Huckleberry's nose was turned toward ho up before she had passed the straggling outpost of rusty tin cans which marked, by iebrush waste surrounding it

"You seeood deal of a hurry," Good Indian observed

"Not particularly," she replied, still chirpy as to tone and supercilious as to her manner

It would be foolish to repeat all that was said during that ride holances and in staring straight ahead and saying nothing They were sparring politely before they were over the brow of the hill behind the town; they were indulging in veiled sarcasrew sharp and bitter--before they started down the dusty grade; they were not saying anything at all when they rounded the Point o' Rocks and held their horses rigidly back fro home, as was their habit, and when they dismounted at the stable, they refused to look at each other upon any pretext whatsoever