Having often scolded [Illustration: TAKING AN OBSERVATION.] Julia for "talking to the fishes like a fool," she noticed the omission.
And now she only waited until Julia was over the hill to take the path round the fence under shelter of the blackberry thicket until she came to the clump of alders, from the midst of which she could plainly see if any conversation should take place between her Julia and the comely young Dutchman.
In fact, Julia need not have hurried so much.

For August Wehle had kept one eye on his horses and the other on the house all that day.

It was the quick look of intelligence between the two at dinner that had aroused the mother's suspicions.

And Wehle had noticed the work on the garden-bed, the call to the house, and the starting of Julia on the path toward Mrs.Malcolm's.

His face had grown hot, and his hand had trembled.