ESCAPED FROM GARDENS ^^ 



at spending so much time looking at an empty 

 house. Really, a minute ago those two front win- 

 dow-openings seemed to stare at me just like blind 

 eyes, and I felt creepy." 



"Were you quite broad awake ?" I asked her 

 teasingly. "But you may possibly feel creepy, for 

 you are sitting on an ant-hill!" 



Then Flower Hat grew wide awake enough, and 

 shook her skirts and shivered, until she found that 

 the hill, like the Lilac House, was tenantless, when 

 she started up the road on foot, quite in a huff. 



By this time even Nell had had her fill of herbs, 

 having finished a roadside bed of Spearmint, near 

 where I had let her loose to graze. So we all, in 

 different ways, attached ourselves once more to the 

 chaise, and jogged along up the river road toward 

 sunset. 



Presently I spied a tall, lean figure, hoe on 

 shoulder, coming across lots, and was surprised to 

 find as it drew nearer that it was Time o' Year 

 himself. I never before had seen him handling any 

 tool of greater use than a gun or a fishing-rod, 

 although I knew by hearsay that he had retained 

 the few acres of good ground that lay behind his 

 cabin, when he had left the hill farm so many 

 years before. 



