"Now I must go; I have been so long my people will be wondering what I'm doing." Standing in the middle of the room she put on her hat, picked up her whip and gloves, and led the way to the hitching rack, while all of us followed.

At the gate stood Laddie as he had come from the field.

His old hat was on the back of his head, his face flushed, his collar loosened so that his strong white neck showed, and his sleeves were rolled to the elbow, as they had been all summer, and his arms were burned almost to blisters.

When he heard us coming he opened the gate, went to the rack, untied the Princess' horse and led it beside the mounting block.

As she came toward him, he took off his hat and pitched it over the fence on the grass.
"Miss Pryor, allow me to make you acquainted with my son," said mother.
I felt as if I would blow up.