Page:War; or, What happens when one loves one's enemy, John Luther Long, 1913.djvu/163

THE TAPESTRY OF PENELOPE flings a kiss and laughs, happy as blazes. All changed the minute Dave comes! She has sewing things in her mouth and hands, and, as she waves, something drops out of her hand into the tall grass. We all tries to find it but it is no good, and she laughs, kind of excited, and says:

"Only an empty spool, boys. Don't bother," and we didn't—no more.