Ruby's Reward — page 273: what you’re looking at

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of receiving her letter, and he had dropped every- Lips ti at onee, though he was very busy, to come to er. “Tired! not a bit; andif I was, ’d be willing to travel miles to see that anxious look go out of your face,’ he said, kindly; adding: **Come, I know the lay of the land about “here, for IT used to come here often in brother Ralph’s day—though [ must confess that I was kind o’ nonplused when I found out that you were summering here—and I'll take you where there'll be no danger of anybody hearing what you’ve got to tell me.” He arose and led the way around back of the house into a little lane leading down to the river, and then told Ruby to open all her heart to him and keep nothing back. And the young girl did as he requested; she began with Edmund Carpenter's fondness for her, telling ot his proposals of marriage to her, his jealousy of Walter, of his threats regarding him, and finally of the trickery that had been employed by him and her sister to get her to come to Forestvale to spend the summer. [TO BE CONTINUED. ] ae [THIS STORY WILL NOT BE a ee) IN BOOK-FORM, comichbooks.co