"
"Then you shall come down to the ranch the minute you can get
away, and we'll do something or go somewhere. The boys said
they'd take me fishing--but they only propose things so they can
play jokes on me, it seems to me. They'd make me fall in the
river, or something, I just know. But if you'd like to go along,
there'd be two of us--"
"Chicken, we'll go. I ought to be ashamed to fish for an
invitation the way I did, but I'm not. I haven't been down to
the Hart ranch yet; and I've heard enough about it to drive me
crazy with the desire to see it. Your Aunt Phoebe I've met, and
fallen in love with--that's a matter of course. She told me to
visit her just any time, without waiting to be invited
especially. Isn't she the dearest thing? Oh! that's a train
order, I suppose--sixteen is about due. Excuse me, chicken."
She was busy then until the train came screeching down upon the
station, paused there while the conductor rushed in, got a thin
slip of paper for himself and the engineer, and rushed out again.
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