3/26 Ned wants to say something more, but time presses, and I only allow him to send his love to Minnie, and to tell her that he is trying to find the red snow. "And the trail--it may not be passable." "It was passable the day before yesterday," said Kate drearily, "for I discovered it, and went as far as the buck-eyes." "Then it was you who told them about it," said Mrs.Hale reproachfully. "Of course I didn't." She stopped, and, reading the significance of her speech in the glistening eyes of her sister, she blushed. Josephine kissed her, and said-- "It WAS treating us like children, Kate, but we must make them pay for it hereafter. For that package and letter to John means something, and we shall probably see them before long. |