6/37 I'm going to Father Barnum's house." "No, you're not, and I didn't misunderstand him. He wants to get you outside, all right, but I reckon you'd rather go as Mrs.Runnion than as the sweetheart of Ben Stark." "Are you crazy ?" the girl cried. "Mr.Stark kindly offered to help me reach the Father at his Mission. I'm nothing to him, and I'm certainly not going to be anything to you. If I'd known you were going to row the boat, I should have stayed at home, because I detest you." "You'll get over that." "I'm not in the humor for jokes." He rested again on his oars, and said, with deliberation: "Stark 'kindly offered' did he? |