"But there may
be some day."
He turned his back to us.
"Please go," he said brusquely. "I want to rest. Don't stand over me
that way, Tim. Why, you look like little Colonel!"
* * * * * *
At the school-house door Tim halted suddenly.
"I'm going back, Mark," he whispered, "just for a minute. Weston will
think I'm a fraud and I want to tell him something. Now that the
others have left I may have a chance. Confound these kind-hearted
women that overrun the house! Why, a fellow couldn't say a word
without a dozen ears to hear it."
"I'll go back with you," said I.
We had fallen a few steps behind the others, but somehow they divined
our purpose and stopped, too.
"You needn't," said Tim. "I'll only be a minute."
"But I've something to tell you--a secret--and Mary----"
He was gone.
"I'll be back in a minute," he called. "Go on home."
He was lost in the darkness, and I started after him.
"Ain't you comin'?" cried Nanny Pulsifer.
"I must go back to Warden's," I answered.
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