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keeper; but he oughtn't to be. I don't see how Mother Purling can get along with him."
"She isn't afraid of him; is she?" queried Ruth.
"She isn't afraid of anything," asid Heavy, quickly, from the rear seat. "You wait till you see her."
The buckboard went heavily on toward the lighthouse; but the girls saw that the man stood for a long time—as long as they were in sight, at least—staring after them.
"What do you suppose he looked at Nita so hard for?" whispered Helen in Ruth's ear. "Ithought he was going to speak to her."
But Ruth had not noticed this, nor did the runaway girl seem to have given the man any particular attention.
