A few swift steps landed her upon the pine
needles.
It seems, if things keep on as they are, youll lose
only me, observedLucy. How utterly she, too, was at the mercy of her
imagination!
She had beenwalking and climbing every day, and
felt that she was equal to agruelling task. The sunlight filtered through the
foliage.
Its not me, but the woods an the beesan the work
youre thinkin about. Certainly it was notdiscourtesy, for Edd was always
thoughtful.
Denmeade would approve of some one else
accompanying them.
Instead it flaredup, blazed, crackled, and roared.
It would have to be a badplace and a long walk that would daunt Lucy this
day.
Then his dark face beamed and his grey eyes shone
with the piercing lightLucy found hard to face. It has been a lovely day, she said
as she turned away. It seems, if things keep on as they are, youll lose only me,
observedLucy. It would have to be a badplace and a long walk that would daunt Lucy
this day.
This place madeLucys heart leap to her
throat.
At last they surmounted the great timbered incline.
Next he placed agoodly bit of honey on a stone close enough to the fire to make it
smoke.
His position corresponded with the slant of the
slope.
She had beenwalking and climbing every day, and
felt that she was equal to agruelling task.
Fortunately Lucy recollected Eddswarning to have a
care to turn the damper in the stove-pipe.
It ended in an open spot close to a treeLucy
recognised. There was aregularity about their appearance. Wal, sometimes a bear
smells the honey an comes along.
I burn it tomake a sweet, strong smell in the
woods. At the same instant she sawsomething move, a white and brown object flashing
low down. Joe came just this moment to tell me they were going home, repliedClara,
looking up at Lucy.
Meekly she followedhim in and out of the clumps of
brush toward the slope.
Edd knelt to one side and pointed at the
bees.
The pines on that sidewere uniform in size, shape,
and colour. Then having got the knack of following, she endeavoured to
concentrateall her powers of vision.
Reckon because Ive caught an tamedqueen
bees.
He had an iron last, upside down,over which he
slipped one of her boots.
At the same instant she sawsomething move, a white
and brown object flashing low down. The ruggedness ofnature, of storm and flood, of
fight to survive, manifested itself allaround her.
All right, country boy, Im coming, she replied,
with bravado. She could not seeanyone, which fact helped a little.
Fortunately Lucy recollected Eddswarning to have a
care to turn the damper in the stove-pipe.