[Illustration: "WELL," MARGARET EXCLAIMED, "I NEVER WAS SO SURPRISED."]
"Well," Margaret exclaimed, "I never was so surprised."
Jasper ducked his head and with his hands behind him walked off. But
soon he came back and replied: "No, but I reckon if it hadn't happened
you'd a been a leetle mo' surprised."
She flouted at him and said to Tom: "Goin' to git married?"
"Yes, madam, not next year, month, week--but now."
"Now!" exclaimed Jasper, with a clap of hands.
"My dear," Mrs. Mayfield said to Lou, "you need not be afraid to trust
him. He won't live a lie."
Tom took the girl by the hand. "Come with me now, please. Let us go
where the spirit boy used to play with you."
"Yes. And now I know that all the time it was you--you lived under the
rock. Come on. We will go up among the hills an' make like we are lost."
And as they were walking away, Jasper said to his wife: "Margaret, that
reminds me of a Sunday, a long time ago."
"Yes, Jasper;" and then she said to Mrs. Mayfield: "But law me, it don't
take 'em long to fall in love an' git married these days.
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