SON OF THE WIND
wait— that we haven't known each other long enough."
"But we won't and we have. The short time is a distinct advantage. You can tell her that."
"No, you do it." Carron would not have made that flippant remark to Mrs. Rader for any consideration, and he suspected that the wicked girl knew it.
"I have to see your father," he said with great dignity.
She looked at him quaintly. "O, that will just be fun! I can't imagine father under such circumstances. What do you suppose he will say?"
"He will say that like all sinners, I have great hopes of heaven."
They used frivolous, mirthful words, but their eyes said deeper things to each other, and half spoken sentences were forgotten on their lips. She was the first to remember the time. "Oh, how long have we been here? And mother may be wanting me!" She fled; but at the veranda steps, she stopped, conscience smitten. "We forgot all about him!" she said in a horrified voice.
"Who?"
"Beetles!" At the sound of his name the dog turned his head with lifted ears, and weakly beat his tail.
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