"Hell of a way to live," he said once. "I'd get married, but how can
a fellow know whether a girl will make a home for him or give him this?
And then there would be babies, too."
The relations between Dan and Edith were not particularly cordial.
Willy Cameron found their bickering understandable enough, but he
was puzzled, sometimes, to find that Dan was surreptitiously watching
his sister. Edith was conscious of it, too, and one evening she
broke into irritated speech.
"I wish you'd quit staring at me, Dan Boyd."
"I was wondering what has come over you," said Dan, ungraciously.
"You used to be a nice kid. Now you're an angel one minute and a
devil the next."
Willy spoke to him that night when they were setting out rows of
seedlings, under the supervision of Jinx.
"I wouldn't worry her, Dan," he said; "it is the spring, probably.
It gets into people, you know. I'm that way myself. I'd give a
lot to be in the country just now."
Dan glanced at him quickly, but whatever he may have had in his mind,
he said nothing just then. However, later on he volunteered:
"She's got something on her mind. I know her. But I won't have her
talking back to mother.
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