"I wish you'd shout," Flossy said. "They can't be far off."
"What shall I shout?"
"I don't believe you know a word I've been saying," she remarked, looking into his face. "I want you to call them."
Burleigh was not without a sense of humor, and his bashfulness had yielded in a great degree to the pleasure which Miss Plant's presence gave him. He accepted the command literally, and roared, "Them! them!" so lustily that the rocky banks of the brook re-echoed.
"Mercy!" cried his companion. "You've lungs like organ-bellows. I'll get out and look for them before I'm stone-deaf."
"If 'them' means Will and Ease Apthorpe," Burleigh said, "there they come now."