I don't like to put a guest to work, but really I need a little help about that roof.

It has fallen in at one corner, and I presume it ought to be repaired, for the sake of Miss Beauchamp's conscience when she goes to the Land Office to prove up." Franklin assented to this proposition with such eagerness that he blushed as he saw how evident had been his pleasure at this opportunity for a moment's speech alone with the girl who sat so near but yet so unapproachable.

"I'll be delighted," said he.
Mary Ellen said nothing.

The pink spot in her cheek was plainly deeper.

It did not lessen as she stood watching the struggle the two men had in again hitching to the buggy the wild black horse.