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"Wi' the auld moon in hir arme,",Beauties, that charm, become you more than dress,,"I guess your Dad don't think much of us folks down here, does he?" Billy asked.,She took the flower, put it to her lips, and handed it to him. His passion for her was very visible as he received the flower with his eyes fixed upon her face. He gave her a low bow, and then put on his hat, and going to the hedge pulled a leaf in which he wrapped[Pg 45] the daisy, and carefully placed both in his waistcoat pocket.,“I figure you won’t go away hungry,” he said in a voice Bob was surprised to find was cultivated and soft. “The old man here sees to it that we get enough. It won’t be long either. I’ll go and see. I’m sort of housekeeper as well as foreman around this hang-out. Fine job for a full-grown man.”,"What did you find there?" Billy's tone of impatience brought the old man out of his musing.,"Ah, my friend, there comes in the riddle.","I should think I do, sir," answered Paul, grinning.,"Not clever," says Mona. "If I were clever I should not take for granted—as I always do—that what people say they must mean. I myself could not wear a double face.","Why not? it just suits him: 'A little, round, fat, oily man of——'",CHAPTER XII AT THE CABLE TOWER,“Indeed! You have done that, have you? Well—it looks as if they had all got bruised.”.