"Is it all right?" cried Hiram, "it cost a quarter to git it drawn up.
Then I swore to it before old Squire Rundlett over to Montrose, and it
ought ter hold water. You'd better keep it, Mandy, then I can't fling it
up at yer that I never axed yer to marry me."
"Who told you that?" asked the girl indignantly.
"Ma Hawkins. Well, she didn't exactly say it to me, but she spoke it out
so loud to Betsy Green that I heered it clear out in the wood-shed and
I'll tell yer what, Mandy, it kinder made me mad."
"Well, it's all right now," said Mandy soothingly.
"Is it?" asked Hiram, his face beaming with delight.
The next instant there was a succession of peculiar sounds heard in the
room. As Swiss came back from the kitchen door but one chair was needed
for the happy couple, and an onlooker would have thought that chair was
occupied by one person with a very large head, having light curly hair
on one side and straight dark hair on the other, no face being visible.
It was upon this picture that Mrs. Crowley looked as she opened the door
leading into the kitchen and started to come into the room with a large
pan full of cream.
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