But you must manage somehow--for Kitty's sake you _must_." "If only the Dean had not interrupted the proceedings this morning, how it would have simplified everything!" he mused, and she saw that as always he was laughing at himself.
"Don't, Larry; please don't," she cried earnestly.
He looked at her curiously.

"Would you have me lie to her, Helen--deliberately lie ?" She answered quietly.

"I don't think that I would raise that question, if I were you, Larry--considering all the circumstances." On his way back to the Cross-Triangle, Patches walked as a man who, having determined upon a difficult and distasteful task, is of a mind to undertake it without delay.
After supper that evening he managed to speak to Kitty when no one was near.
"I must see you alone for a few minutes to-night," he whispered hurriedly.

"As soon as possible.

I will be under the trees near the bank of the wash.