Ruth thought of what the old mammy at Dr. Cary’s had told her. She wished to change the subject.
“Did he say where we met?” she asked, laughing and blushing.
“No, only said he had met you.”
“He caught me up in a cherry-tree.”
“What! Well, he’s a nice fellow,” said her father, and Ruth had begun to think so too.
CHAPTER XXVIII
MRS. WELCH ARRIVES AND GIVES HER FIRST LESSON IN ENTERPRISE
The next day, Still called to see Major Welch and made him a proposition to sell him a part of the Red Rock place. On thinking it over, he said, he believed he’d rather have the Major as a near neighbor than to have him farther off, and he also believed that the Major would find it safer to buy from him a place he had got under decree of court, and had already held quietly for some time, than to buy a place about which there might be a question and where he’d be sure to incur the enmity of the old owners.