"I'd back the girl against anything I ever met up with--when she has her artillery.

By the way, Myra, have your neighbors below called yet ?" "No--at least, not while I have been at home.

I have been berrying, two or three times.

They might have come while I was out." "Has Sibyl met them yet ?" came the next question.
"She has not mentioned it, if she has." "H-m-m," mused Brian Oakley.
The woman's love for the girl prompted her to quick suspicion of the Ranger's manner.
"What is it, Mr.Oakley ?" she asked.

"Has the child been indiscreet?
Has she done anything wrong?
Has she been with those men ?" "She has called upon one of them several times," returned Brian, smiling.
"Mr.King is painting that little glade by the old spring at the foot of the bank, you know, and I guess she stumbled onto him.