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I wonder? That means I’ve got to hustle down to the port and get on board. Rob’s got the baby with him. [He comes hack to the boulder. keeps her face averted from him.] Gosh, I never saw a father so tied up in a kid as Rob is! He just watches every move she makes. And I don’t blame him. You both got a right to feel proud of her. She’s surely a little winner. [He glances at to see if this very obvious attempt to get back in her good graces is having any effect.] I can see the likeness to Rob standing out all over her, can’t you? But there’s no denying she’s your young one, either. There’s something about her eyes

—[Piteously.] Oh, Andy, I’ve a headache! I don’t want to talk! Leave me alone, won’t you please?

—[Stands staring at her for a moment—then walks away saying in a hurt tone.] Everybody hereabouts seems to be on edge today. I begin to feel as if I’m not wanted around. [''He stands near the path, left, kicking at the grass with the toe of his shoe. A moment later enters, followed by  carrying''. The ''seems scarcely to have changed at all from the jovial, booming person he was three years before. He wears a uniform similar to''. He is puffing and breathless from his climb and mops wildly at his perspiring countenance. casts a quick glance at, noticing the latter’s discomfited look, and then turns his eyes on  who, at their approach,