He did not want June to
come home at that time, and he didn't think it was safe over there
for Hale just then. Some of the Falins had been seen hanging
around Lonesome Cove for the purpose, Judd believed, of getting a
shot at the man who had kept young Dave from falling into their
hands, and Hale saw that by that act he had, as Budd said, arrayed
himself with the Tollivers in the feud. In other words, he was a
Tolliver himself now, and as such the Falins meant to treat him.
Hale rebelled against the restriction, for he had started some
work in Lonesome Cove and was preparing a surprise over there for
June, but old Judd said:
"Just wait a while," and he said it so seriously that Hale for a
while took his advice.
So June stayed on at the Gap--with little disappointment,
apparently, that she could not visit home. And as spring passed
and the summer came on, the little girl budded and opened like a
rose. To the pretty school-teacher she was a source of endless
interest and wonder, for while the little girl was reticent and
aloof, Miss Saunders felt herself watched and studied in and out
of school, and Hale often had to smile at June's unconscious
imitation of her teacher in speech, manners and dress.
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