章节目录
共 43 题- THE SETTLER
- BY
- HERMAN WHITAKER
- COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY HARPER & BROTHERS
- PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- CHAP.
- Morrill impulsively extended his hand. "You're a good fellow, Carter."
- The manager glanced at his watch. "I can't spare you much more."
- In a flash she abolished the space. "Oh, where? Will he--follow us?"
- Carter laughed again. "There won't be any fight. Listen!"
- Carter reined in. "Where? To Hines's? Keep right along."
- Bender coughed, shuffled. "Where's your dad?"
- She glanced up at the ominous sky. "Can't. Rain's coming right on."
- Bender looked troubled. "There ain't a soul knows it--yet."
- The doctor took doubt by the ears. "Well, hitch and let's see."
- But Carter balked, grinning. "Lordy, man; do your own courting."
- She broke a silence. "It is considered bad manners to stare."
- A few moments later she remarked, "You have a poor memory."
- She restated the issue. "But why doesn't he like them?"
- Morrill answered her question with another. "Why do you like them?"
- Carter smiled at the moon. "Looks like storm?"
- Followed Leslie's voice. "Hullo, Elinor! What's the matter?"
- She laughed, bowing. "Do I sit on such high peaks of virtue?"
- Again she laughed. "What _significance_!"
- Jed's grin widened. "You hain't heard, then?"
- He turned from her astonished eyes. "Frost."
- Helen blushed under her meaning glance. "No, no! It would be wicked."
- Bender eyed him wrathfully. "Now what in hell do you mean?"
- As Bender prophesied, Michigan Red came back "right smartly."
- Michigan rose. "Lend me your whip, Carrots!"
- Carter whistled. "How did they do it?"
- She smiled. "Did you really--suffer?"
- Recovering, she spoke sharply, "Take it away!"
- She sighed. "I can't go to South Africa."
- Carter smiled. "Yes? Who's saying it?"
- But Bender would not down. "Oh, shore!" he pleaded. "Shore! shore!"
- He ignored the sarcasm. "--could not be happy together."
- The surveyor curiously studied his thoughtful face. "You are climbing?"
- The manager raised heavy lids. "In three months we'll break you."
- How the matron stared! "Treatment? Orders? Whose orders, pray?"
- She remembered. "Oh, was that you? Why didn't you come in?"
- This was the "something he wanted to do."
- THE END