CHAPTER XXXIII.
WILLARD HOLMES RECEIVES HIS ANSWER.
When Barbara returned to the living room with some trivial excuse to explain her rather long absence, she found Holmes determined to go with Mr. Greenfield to his rooms in the hotel in Kingston.
When she protested he answered: "Really, Miss Worth, my shoulder troubles me so little that I am ashamed to offer myself as an invalid; and now that Uncle Jim is with me I haven't the shadow of an excuse for burdening you any longer."
"I am sorry if I have made you feel that you were a burden," she returned with a brave smile.
He answered warmly: "You know I did not mean to imply that. I shall never forget your kindness—never."
Greenfield too expressed his appreciation of her kindness but she answered the engineer as if she had not heard the older man. "And I can never thank you for what you have done for us."
As they stood on the porch while Greenfield went on ahead to the buggy,
Holmes held out his hand. "And we are square again?"
"Yes, we are square."
"Then adios, Senorita."