Ruby's Reward — page 116: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIV. A NABKOW BAUAPI Luycw over, Walter brought water from an icy sping near by, and which his fiends preferred to the cold coffee and tea which they had found with the other contents of their baskets, and then he asked Ruby if she felé equal to climbing to the top of the bridge. “J. that question intended as a sarcasm upon the amount of Mrs Ruggles’s good things that I have managed to dispose of 2” she asked, laughing. but with a saucy toss of her head. “No, indeed ; I should not presume to indulve in anything of the kind after my own depredations upon that basket,” Walter returned, “but I thought the climb might be wearixome for you.” “Oh, J shall not mind that, and it does nob look so very far; although I have learned that distances are very deceptive in this region.” “The ascent is not difficu}t; the only trouble will he thut you may grow dizzy from the immense height,” “ My head is nob a very giddy one, as I think I have already proved,” Ruby re- turned, tossing ib gayly. ‘I ameanmbsagatcha