It's terribly sudden, somehow, though it's only what everybody half expected would come; only we thought it would come from over yonder." He nodded toward the west.

"But she's got to stay here with us.

Boarding at Sol Tibbs's with that old man won't do; and she's no girl to live in two rooms.

You fix it up with her--you make her stay." "She must," answered his daughter as she knelt beside him and patted his coat and handed him several things to eat at the same time.

"Mr.Fisbee will help me persuade her, now that she's bound to stay in spite of him and the Sherwoods, too.