There was a shriek of laughter from the
girls, and the young man, flushing red as the apples, turned,
without giving his name, and strode back with no little majesty,
looking neither to right nor left. Hale knew and June knew that
the visitor was her cousin Dave, but she never mentioned the
incident to him, though as the end of the session drew nigh, her
letters became more frequent and more full of messages to the
people in Lonesome Cove, and she seemed eager to get back home.
Over there about this time, old Judd concluded suddenly to go
West, taking Bud with him, and when Hale wrote the fact, an answer
came from June that showed the blot of tears. However, she seemed
none the less in a hurry to get back, and when Hale met her at the
station, he was startled; for she came back in dresses that were
below her shoe-tops, with her wonderful hair massed in a golden
glory on the top of her head and the little fairy-cross dangling
at a woman's throat. Her figure had rounded, her voice had
softened. She held herself as straight as a young poplar and she
walked the earth as though she had come straight from Olympus.
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