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She flung out an arm dramatically, pointing down at the slight figure of a man coming toward them, slowly toiling up the slope of the valley.
"There he is," she cried. "Your artist-patient. Your dypsomaniac rancher. A symbol, a symbol of the bonds which are crushing the brave spirits of our--ahem!--young hearts."
But Kate ignored the approaching man. She had eyes only for the bright face before her.
"You're a great child," she declared warmly. "I ought to be angry. I ought to be just mad with you. I believe I really am. But--but the cabbage business has broken up the storm of my feelings. Cabbage? Oh, dear." She laughed softly. "You, with your soft, wavy hair, dressed as though we had a New York hairdresser in the village. You, with your great gray eyes, your charming little nose and cupid mouth. You, with your beautiful new frock, only arrived from New York two days ago, and which, by the way, I don't think you ought to wear sprawling upon dusty ground. You--a cabbage! It just robs all you've said of, I won't say truth, but--sense. There, child, you've said your say. But you needn't worry about me. I'm not changed--really. Maybe I do many things that seem strange to you, but--but--I know what I'm doing. Poor old Charlie. Look at him. I often wonder what'll be the end of him."
Kate Seton sighed. It seemed as though there were a great depth of motherly tenderness in her heart, and just now that tenderness was directed toward the man approaching them.
But the lighter-minded Helen was less easily stirred. She smiled amusedly in her sister's direction. Then her bright eyes glanced swiftly down at the man.
"If all we hear is true, his end will be the penitentiary," she declared with decision.
Kate glanced round quickly, and her eyes suddenly became quite hard.
"Penitentiary?" she questioned sharply.
Helen shrugged.
"Everybody says he's the biggest whisky smuggler in the country, and--and his habits don't make things look much--different. Say, Kate, O'Brien told me the other day that the police had him marked down. They were only waiting to get him--red-handed."
The hardness abruptly died out of Kate's eyes. A faint sigh, perhaps of relief, escaped her.
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