"Now run after the girls, and I shall have tea ready for you." As Larry rode down the lane he saw the young German, Ernest Switzer, and his sister riding down the trail and gave them a call.

They pulled up and waited.
"Hello, Ernest; whither bound?
How are you, Dorothea ?" "Home," said the young man, "and you ?" "Going up by the timber lot, around by the cool road.

The girls are on before." "Ah, so ?" said the young man, evidently waiting for an invitation.
"Do you care to come?
It's not much longer that way," said Larry.
"I might," said the young man.

Then looking doubtfully at his sister, "You cannot come very well, Dorothea, can you ?" "No, that is, I'm afraid not," she replied.

She was a pretty girl with masses of yellow hair, light blue eyes, a plump, kindly face and a timid manner.