"Mr. Euston caught him for me," she said, laughing, but coloring perceptibly, while John's face grew very red. "I think I will run on and join my sister, and Mr. Lenox can drive home with you. Good bye, Mr. Harum. I shall be glad to have Kirby whenever it is convenient. We shall be glad to see you at Lakelawn," she said to John cordially, "whenever you can come;" and taking her prayer book and hymnal from him, she sped away.
"Look at her git over the ground," said David, turning to watch her while John got into the buggy. "Ain't that a gait?"
"She is a charming girl," said John as old Jinny started off.
"She's the one I told you about that run off with my hoss," remarked David, "an' I alwus look after him fer her in the winter."
"Yes, I know," said John. "She was laughing about it to-day, and saying that you and she were great friends."
"She was, was she?" said David, highly pleased. "Yes, sir, that's the girl, an', scat my ——! if I was thirty years younger she c'd run off with me jest as easy—an' I dunno but what she could anyway," he added.
"Charming girl," repeated John rather thoughtfully.
"Wa'al," said David, "I don't know as much about girls as I do about some things; my experience hain't laid much in that line, but I wouldn't like to take a contract to match her on any limit. I guess," he added softly, "that the consideration in that deal 'd have to be 'love an' affection.' Git up, old lady," he exclaimed, and drew the whip along old Jinny's back like a caress. The mare quickened her pace, and in a few minutes they drove into the barn.