Am I to sit here every day and every night at Sarita Creek until your canal is built ?" By now her words were not only casual but carried a trace of disdainfulness.
"No, Ruth," said he.

"I want you to have a good time and derive every pleasure that you rightly can.

My greatest regret is that I can't take you and share the fun.

But it goes without saying that I can't.

Only, Charlie Menocal----" "Lee, what's got into you to-night?
If it were not for Mr.
Gretzinger's and Charlie's thoughtfulness, I'd have died of lonesomeness long before this.