But I'll make up for that now, Miss Ruth, and it won't be very long before you and your friend will be planning how to rid yourselves of me." "Just try us and see," she exclaimed.
"Well, I shall.

Till to-morrow, then." "Till to-morrow, yes." She moved forward some paces and wheeled about, pointing her forefinger at his head and working her thumb.
"Beware--and don't forget!" Then after another advance and face about she concluded by blowing him a kiss off the palm of her hand, with which performance she did actually start for home, weaving her way through the sagebrush and going farther and farther off.
"What a pretty little witch she is!" thought Lee; and he, too, made his way from the spot.
Dave's hot, harassed face greeted him at the door.
"Where is she?
Didn't she come ?" he cried, peering about everywhere.
"Well, thank goodness for that! But if that isn't the way with a girl--and after I'd swept up and made the beds and scraped all the skillets, too!".