ng to do. And now what will that reckless boy do, with
his grandmother waiting for him and every other window in the house
locked?"
"What are you doing there, Ruthie?" grumbled Ann. "O-o-oh! it's cold," and
she drew her comforter up around her shoulders and the next moment she was
asleep.
Helen never lay awake after her head touched the pillow, so Ruth did not
look for any questioning on her chum's part. And Amy had already wept
herself unhappily into dreamland.
"Poor kiddie!" thought Ruth, casting a commiserating glance again at Amy.
"And now for this silly boy. If the girls knew what I was going to do
they'd have a spasm, I expect," and she chuckled.
She leaned far out of the open window again, and, sitting on the
window-sill, turned her body so as to look up the slant of the steep roof.
"Curly!" she called softly. No answer. "Curly Smith!" she raised her voice
decisively. "If you don't come here I'll call your grandmother."
A figure appeared slowly from behind a chimney. Even at that distance Ruth
could see the figure shiver.
"Wha--what do you want?" asked the boy, shakingly.
"Come here, you silly boy!" commanded Ruth. "Do you want to get your death
of cold?"
"I--I----"
"Come down here at once! And don't fall, for pity's sake," was Ruth's
warning, as the boy's foot slipped. "My goodness! you haven't any shoes
on--and no cap--and just that thin coat. Curly Smith! you'll be down sick
after this."
"I'll be sick if Gran' catches me," admitted the boy. "She's layin' for me
at my window."
"I know," said Ruth, as the boy crept closer.
"You telltale girls told her, of course," growled the boy.
"We did not. Ann and Helen don't know. Amy is scared, but she's gone to
sleep. _She_ wouldn't tell."
"How did Gran' know, then?" demanded Curly, coming closer.
Ruth told him. The boy was both ashamed of his predicament and frightened.
"How can I get in, Ruth? I'd like to sneak downstairs into the sitting
room and lie down by the sitting room fire and get warm."
Notka biograficzna
najlepsza herbaciarnia wyśmienite herbaty, zielone, czerwone Największa stolica w polsce warszawa kryje wiele tajemnic. Igor Talwinski Tchorzewski Orlowski
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.