It will keep you busy for two or three weeks, perhaps longer.

Will you come ?" David replied that he would, and turned away with an expression of surprise and disappointment on his face.

The eager, almost excited manner in which Don greeted him, led him to hope that he had something very pleasant and encouraging to tell, and somehow he couldn't help thinking that his visitors had not said just what they intended to say when they first came up to the fence.
"What in the name of sense and Tom Walker was the matter with you, Bert ?" demanded Don, as soon as the two were out of David's hearing.
"My arm is all black and blue, I know!" "I didn't want you to say too much," was Bert's reply, "and I didn't know any other way to stop your talking.

There was a listener close by." "A listener! Who was it ?" "David's brother.

Just as you began speaking I happened to look toward the cabin, and saw through the cracks between the logs that the window on the other side was open.