Ruby's Reward — page 92: what you’re looking at

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deme ‘*Yes, he was. Miss Gordon, there is the prettiest little nook, with a eharming spring, a short distance from the house ; will you come and let me show it to you ?” Waller asked, suddenly changing the sub- ject; for it always made him unhappy to talk of Edmund Carpenter. ‘© Yes, indeed I shall be delighted to go,” Ruby said, rising to accompany him. “Good-bye, Robert,” she continued, casting ashy glance at her brotherover her shoulder. “* My Richardson is going to show me some of the attractions of the place.” And nodding gayly to her host and hostess, she trippcd down the steps with Walter, and the two wandered away in the gloaming by themselves. A short distance below the house a tiny mountain brook or rill went flowing close beside the road. A little beyond, Walter turned in at a pair of bars ani led his companion to a lovely, shady spot where a spring, clear as crystal, bubbled out from beneath a huge flat rock, and where a thrifty hivch tree had grown up beside it in a curious way, nature in some unaccountable freak having curved and twisted its trunk so as to form a very comfortable but rustic seat, P Walter seated Rulby upon <dhis. and then threw himself upon the:ock beside her. ; All about them there was a soft carpet of | moss, gathered here aud theve with groat clusters of graceful ferns, while the thick | toliage of the trees above them made ai chamning silver bower—a veritable lovers’ | aetreat, comichooks.com * P= ae te a i | 11.4.