“And you’ll lend me nothing if I come to borrow.”
“I’ll lend you anything.”
“Except David Campbell; I may want to borrow him sometimes.”
Jeanie was about to speak, but just then the minister appeared, and a decorous line of worshippers entered the little meeting-house. What it was that Jeanie meant to say Agnes did not find out; but it was quite true that during the long service Jeanie stole more than one glance at David Campbell.
CHAPTER VI
JEANIE’S SECRET
The summer would have passed happily enough but for a rumor that there had been seen some hostile Indians in the next settlement; and this information so affected Fergus Kennedy that he became stricken with a continual fear, and was powerless to do anything but cower, rifle in hand, in the corner of the cabin. Brave man that he had always been, this condition seemed the more pitiful to his friends who had known him in his strength.
“It’s not like father,” Agnes told Polly, “and I don’t know what we shall do. The M’Cleans want us to leave here and go over to them, but who then will look after our clearing?”
“Jerry Hunter ’ud do it.”
“Maybe he would, but I don’t like to leave here just as we are fairly settled.”