Excerpt: ... without-without-without-oh, think of me only as a grateful child whose life you've kept from being spoiled." "I shall not go away without-what?" he asked eagerly. "Oh, I don't know. What shall I say? My heart aches as if it would break at the thought of anything happening to you." She dropped on the grass and, burying her face in her hands, sobbed aloud. He knelt beside her and sought to take one of her hands. Suddenly she hid her face against his breast for a moment and faltered, "Love me as a child NOW and ...
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Excerpt: ... without-without-without-oh, think of me only as a grateful child whose life you've kept from being spoiled." "I shall not go away without-what?" he asked eagerly. "Oh, I don't know. What shall I say? My heart aches as if it would break at the thought of anything happening to you." She dropped on the grass and, burying her face in her hands, sobbed aloud. He knelt beside her and sought to take one of her hands. Suddenly she hid her face against his breast for a moment and faltered, "Love me as a child NOW and leave me." "You have given me my orders, little girl, and they would be obeyed as far as you could see were I with you every day." "Lieutenant Scoville!" shouted the distant voice of an orderly. He hastily kissed away the tears in her eyes, exclaiming, "Never doubt my return, if living," and was gone. In a moment he had passed through the shrubbery. Before she had regained self-control and followed he was speeding his horse toward the ridge. "There, he has gone without his dinner," she said in strong self-reproach, hastening to the cabin. Chunk, who was stuffing a chicken and cornbread into a haversack, reassured her. "Doan you worry, Miss Lou," he said. "Dis yere chicken gwine ter foller 'im right slam troo eberyting till hit cotch up," and he galloped after his new "boss" in a way to make good his words. CHAPTER XXI TWO STORMS Miss Lou sank wearily on the doorstep of Aun' Jinkey's cabin where the reader first made her acquaintance. She drew a long sigh. "Oh, I must rest and get my breath. So much is happening!" "You po' chile!" was the sympathetic response. "Ah well, honey, de good Lawd watchin' ober you. I year how dat ole snake in-de-grass Perkins git out Miss Whately's keridge en tink he gwine ter tote you off nobody know whar. You passin' troo de Red Sea long o' us, honey. I yeared how you say you doan wanter lebe yo' ole mammy. I ain' cried so sence I wus a baby w'en I yeared dat. Doan you reckermember, honey? You sot right dar en...
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