Tomorrow About This Time
“The Fitch place stood up and back from the street on a slight elevation among a grove of light maples. The chicken run was higher up the hill to one side and commanded a wide view of the road winding round to the bridge and over into the woods. It was the last house on the street as you went toward Frogtown from the south end of Silver Sands.Barry had just pounded his thumb trying to straighten a stubborn nail and had thrown down the hammer and stuck the throbbing thumb in his mouth when the fl...ash of a scarlet hat and the flutter of scarlet tulle came into sight down the road. For an instant he stared in astonishment, for such a sight was not native to Silver Sands, and Barry knew everybody that lived there, by sight at least. Then something familiar in the swagger of the plump figure struck him and he drew his brows in a frown and turned a quick look at Sam.Sam was down on his hands and knees with his back to the street nailing wire to the base. He would not be likely to see her.Barry stooped and picked up his hammer and began a tremendous pounding on the corner post, straightening another nail, his weather eye to the road, unheeding the blood that was streaming from his bruised thumb.At just the right instant as Athalie passed behind the group of tall cedars and was for a few seconds lost to view, he threw down his hammer with an exclamation and called to Sam in an imperative voice: “Oh, I say, Sam, run to the house quick and get me a rag to do up this blamed thing.MoreLess
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