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Rh enough to argue with, and—if matters grew worse—to defy!

"I am really afraid you 're right, Willie," he said thoughtfully, "and in that case we can't do anything—except run away!" he added with a bright recollection of the plan he had been explaining the night previous, before Eppie came in with the delicious diversion of cakes.

Willie was not so ready as before to oppose this scheme. He had conscientiously tried to cheer Roy's mind, but deep down in his own lay a discontent and a rebellion as sincere as his brother's, and he feared that he could not always stay at Kirk-Andrew himself, bold as he had seemed.

"We'll have to stop here a little while, anyway," he answered rather faintly. " We'll be bigger by and by, and then we can go where we like."

Roy gave a snort.