But Eleanor had done it all for
friendship's sake. She knew what a radical change all this information
would make in Barbara's estimation of the Brewsters and the ranch, so
she said more than she herself really believed true.
At that moment the dinner-horn sounded and the girls started for the
house, without making further comment on the cliffs.
CHAPTER IX
SEVERAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS
As the four girls came around the corner of the ranch-house Sary banged
a plate of hot biscuits upon the table. Some of the biscuits bounced
off and rolled across the snowy cloth, so Sary made a swift lunge to
catch them before they fell upon the ground.
Without hesitation, she replaced the biscuits on the plate and glared
at the boarders as she mumbled to herself: "Sech high-filutin' a'rs Ah
never did see afore!"
The strangers looked at each other, wondering what the maid's perturbed
manner portended. But Sary flounced back to the kitchen sending an
angry glance over her shoulder before she entered that sacred precinct.
She quickly returned with a glass dish of pear preserves and another
dish of home-pickled peaches. These were so placed as to flank the
biscuits when Sary spied an inquisitive hornet about to settle upon the
preserves.
"Git out o' that!" shrilled she, whacking at the insect with her
kitchen towel.
The hornet resented the vicious slap and flew straight for Sary's red
head.
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