REDDY ARMSTRONG'S REFORMATION
long. Then he jumped off and hurried to a place along a country roadside, where a blue ridge looks a certain way when the sun is setting, and where something else was pretty sure to appear if the day were fine and he watched long enough. He knew how this looked, too, and when she reined up, the eyebrows looked surprised in the way he expected; then she cried, "You, Reddy! Good gracious!" just as he knew she would.
He said, "Make Tom walk."
She said, "Is Hunter ill?"
"No."
"What's the matter? Where did you come from? What are you doing here?"
"Looking at you."
"I know that. Hurry up. Say something."
"I have a lot to say. You must listen to all of it, Betty."
Then the boy, whose mouth drooped at the corners, did some pretty hard talking. And the girl, who was small, and had a willful chin, and a great deal of dark-brown
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