[Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookLaddie CHAPTER VII 46/62
He leaped from the saddle and fastened both horses. "Gracious Heaven! What have you done ?" gasped the Princess. "Brought your mount," said Laddie, quite as if he were used to going to Pryors' after the sausage grinder or the grain sacks.
But the Princess was pale and trembling.
She stepped so close she touched him, and he immediately got a little closer.
You couldn't get ahead of Laddie, and he didn't seem to care who saw, and neither did she. "Tell me exactly what occurred," she said, just as father does when he means to whale us completely. "I rapped at the front door," said Laddie. "And who opened it ?" cried the Princess. "Your father!" "My father ?" "Yes, your father!" said Laddie.
"And because I was in such a hurry, I didn't wait for him to speak.
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