He went to school, as usual. Zu-zu came running up to him.
“Oh, Ned! Is Bob really dead?”
Ned nodded. Whereupon Zu-zu burst into tears and fled up the school steps, into the shelter of the hall.
Ned wished that for the moment he, too, were a girl, so that he might act as he felt.
[ CHAPTER XVII]
THE RAID THAT FAILED
Wood-piling time had come again. It found a new barn and a new shed already standing, in place of the old ones, upon the Miller premises. The scorched house had been repainted and the blistered buggy had been revarnished. Thus far the damage by the fire had been made good. But here the work must stop, for no new Bob could fill the place of the old Bob.