19/21 And she stood holding the string for two hours in the cold. And I called her a duffer for not running away and letting all my pegs go crooked in the ground. Oh, I say, Miss Davis, it makes a fellow feel awfully ashamed of himself." "So it ought," said Miss Davis, who now understood the whole thing. "She would not tell for fear of getting you blamed." "And I called her a tell-tale before," said Mark, "because she told you about the trick. I've been punishing her for weeks about that. |