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CHAPTER XIII RESTITUTION,Oh, dear! How embarrassing it was—perfectly horrid! And how they roared again as he came on to the wharf!,He stood considering. "We'll just keep what we know to ourselves till we're quite sure," he said at length. "What d'ye say?",Perched round the stem,"Well, Violet was crying (not loudly, you know, but quite comfortably): so then I thought I had been mistaken, and that probably she had a toothache, or a headache, or something, and that the foregoing speech was mere spooning; and I rather lost faith in the situation, when suddenly he said, 'Why do you cry?' And what do you think was her answer? 'Because I am so happy.' Now, fancy any one crying because she was happy!" says Mr. Darling, with fine disgust. "I always laugh when I'm happy. And I think it rather a poor thing to dissolve into tears because a man asks you to marry him: don't you, Mrs. Geoffrey?",CHAPTER XV AGAINST THE FIRE,"Well, really, you know, yes. I think there is something special about her," he says, feeling himself in duty bound to say something.,Vigorously cleaning up the still bewildered victim, Mrs. Wopp hurled fresh orders.,“But this is the time my mama needs me,” May Nell sobbed; “Sunday night in the two-light time, before the stars come out, really, and when the shadow people creep from the corners and blink at you.”,Again they heard the feast shout, and he who called was the chief of the Bear society. After they had eaten and smoked the chief said,,Howard Eliot having left his charges safely at home went to his lonely ranch haunted by rebellious thoughts which Mrs. Wopp would have translated, “Here endeth my knowledge of the female speeshie.”,Billy ran off full of vague expectation born of his mother’s smile. No one in all the country round, not even Harold Prettyman, whose father had the finest farm in Vine County, had such a splendid place to play as the Bennetts’ back lot that sloped down to Runa Creek. As Billy slammed the gate and bounded out on a huge boulder that hung over the creek, a sounding cheer greeted him from below..