37/44 When she straightened, she took a step backward and called: "Ho! Freckles, the Bird Woman wants that natural history pamphlet returned. It belongs to a set she is going to have bound. That's one of the reasons we put it under the box. You be sure to get them as you go home tonight, for fear it rains or becomes damp with the heavy dews." "All right," said Freckles, but it was in a voice that he never had heard before. She was overpoweringly human and bewitchingly lovely. |