Other Main-Travelled Roads

corner of the house and tapped at Marietta's window. She was sleeping soundly and did not hear, for she had be

d raised it a little, and then placed his lips to the crack

! Merr

ed and listened, while her

o the winder." The girl hesi

e. This is your last chance

, and, wrapping herself in

it enough to admit his head, which came just above

tared wide

in the world

ast year's chicken; I know when the old man

y' fool

y's something more important on

ck, "Oh, Li

arm in and caugh

o off without ye t'night, I never come back.

; but

at, Mer

eave Dad all alone. Where y

they're down the road a piece, an' we'll go ri

ill unwontedly befogged. Resolute as she was

s sight o' me." He drew her arm out of the window and laid his bearded cheek to it

head droppe

that, little one. Now I'll give you jest five minutes to git on your Sunday-go-

nt, muffled, and drowsy. The dog at his feet whined uneasily as if suspecting something wrong. The wind from the south was full of the wonderful odor of springing grass, warm, brown earth, and oozing sap. Overhead, to the west, the stars were shining in the cloudless sky, dim

re married. He can't get along without her. If he does, why, I'll rent a farm here, and we'll go to w

n, and the girl's voice wa

ady, but I wi

not put her down till they reached the road. She was compl

ich-way; Lime, how c

we'll stop at Jennings's and fix up. Milt knows what's up, and has

ing pace, and as Marietta leaned back in the seat, thinking of what she had don

robins met them on the way, flocks of wild geese, honking cheerily, drove far overhead toward the no