She was very much perplexed.
"Maryska will never like that. I am sure she will be very unhappy without you."
"I don't agree," he said, and bade her listen.
The sound of young voices came up to them from the cabin. Harry Lassett was talking to Maryska, and when she answered him, there was a little ripple of girlish laughter, which seemed to say that she had found a friend.
"I don't agree," Faber repeated, and then with some sternness, he added: "Mr. Lassett is teaching her cricket, I suppose. Well, that's a game I'd rather she didn't learn!"
CHAPTER VI
GOODWILL TOWARD MEN
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