Penny of Top Hill Trail

at her plate a little bunch of fl

as her father was wont to call her. "He ca

lossoms. There was a mute appeal in the little messengers from the boyish lover. Something infinitely tende

ter beside her plate, and gave her att

e little nosegay to her middy

rward to meet her, his eyes brig

Jo. They are

u for wea

e this morning, Jo, so y

now I

ight after you left, and you are the only one I can

letter in

an tru

can be made only by Kurt's car. He must have come b

I don't like thi

id persuasively. "Mrs. Kingdon

ructions, and she re

choice, I suppose, but a happiness too tame for me. To be sure, there would be the excitement of trying to ruffle the love-feathers, but that, too, in time would pall. I wonder how much longer I sh

emi-security is getting on my nerves. Hebby isn't so good a tra

r which she had locked so that the ever-present, ever-

us in!" came in

nt Pen. Open the door," cam

ces forced a capitulatio

have a picnic dinner there. She would have asked you, too, only Uncle Kurt came back and wants you to r

got into her riding things. "Well, there is always the refuge of fast riding. That is th

on at a ranch-house where there were many people at the table; but on the way home, when nearing the big b

fly. "You mustn't think because I say nothing,

yes were as sombre and impenetrable a

n's banks, or helped myself to the family silver and jewels. It's sweet

riously on to the house, and had dismounted and