"
She turned to him with a wondering smile.
"Somehow it don't make me so miserable, like it useter." Her smile
passed while she looked, she caught both hands to her heaving
breast and a wild intensity burned suddenly in her eyes.
"Why, June!"
"'Tain't nothin'," she choked out, and she turned hurriedly ahead
of him down the path. Startled, Hale had dropped the crimson
flower to his feet. He saw it and he let it lie.
Meanwhile, rumours were brought in that the Falins were coming
over from Kentucky to wipe out the Guard, and so straight were
they sometimes that the Guard was kept perpetually on watch. Once
while the members were at target practice, the shout arose:
"The Kentuckians are coming! The Kentuckians are coming!" And, at
double quick, the Guard rushed back to find it a false alarm and
to see men laughing at them in the street. The truth was that,
while the Falins had a general hostility against the Guard, their
particular enmity was concentrated on John Hale, as he discovered
when June was to take her first trip home one Friday afternoon.
Hale meant to carry her over, but the morning they were to leave,
old Judd Tolliver came to the Gap himself.
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