With a low ejaculation he tore off the scarf, seizing her head in both his hands and gently forcing her face upward that he might look into it. For a minute his eyes questioned hers, then—
"And you're happy about it?" he asked of her breathlessly.
"I was never so happy in my life.... O Red—are you so glad as that?"
"I think I've been waiting for that all my life," confessed Red Pepper Burns.
THE END
Other Books by Grace S. Richmond
Red Pepper Burns
Strawberry Acres
Brotherly House