"If you'll watch the team, Mr. Crosby," the voice of Higgins broke in at
this timely juncture, "I'll run acrost to the depot an' ast about the
train."
"Much obliged, old man; much obliged," returned Crosby affably. "Are you
afraid to be alone in the dark?" he asked, as Higgins rushed out into
the rain. The storm had abated by this time and there was but the
faintest suggestion of distant thunder and lightning, the after-fall of
rain being little more than a drizzle.
"Awfully," she confessed, "but it's safer here than on the beam," she
added, and his heart grew very tender as he detected the fatigue in her
voice. "Anyhow, we have the papers safely signed."
"Mrs. Delancy, I--I swear that you shall never regret this day and
night," he said, stopping in his walk and placing his hands on her
shoulders. She caught her breath quickly. "Do you know what I mean?"
"I--I think--I'm not quite sure," she stammered.
"You will know some day," he said huskily.
When Mr. Higgins appeared at the end of the shed, carrying a lighted
lantern, he saw a tall young man and a tall young woman standing side by
side, awaiting his approach with the unconcern of persons who have no
interest in common.
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