h me. She mixes up such nasty
messes for me to take!"
"The poor child!" murmured Ruth, thinking only of Amy Gregg. "What _shall_
we do?"
"I'll get a lantern and we'll go hunt around for her," suggested Curly,
ripe for any adventure.
"But where will we hunt?"
"Maybe she's gone with some other girl somewhere."
"You know that can't be so," Ruth said. "There isn't a girl friendly
enough with her for her to say ten pleasant words to. The poor little
mite! I'm just as sorry as I can be for her, Curly."
"Well!" returned Curly, "what did she want to tell a story for? I know
what she did. She left the candle burning in her room because she was
afraid to come back to it in the dark after supper. I made her own up to
that."
"Oh! the poor child!" cried Ruth.
"And she didn't understand the electric light. They don't have electricity
in the town where she comes from; natural gas, instead. So that's the
_why_ of the fire," Curly said. "I picked that out of her long ago."
"And she was so close-mouthed with us!" exclaimed Ruth.
"She doesn't like it at Briarwood. She doesn't like the girls. She doesn't
like the teachers. Old Scratch!" exclaimed the boy, "I don't blame
her--and I guess I'd run away myself."
"You don't suppose she _has_ run away, Curly Smith? Not for _keeps_?"
"I don't know," answered the boy. "Her folks don't treat her right, I
guess. They sent her to Briarwood to get her out the way. So she says. And
she's afraid of what her father will do to her if he ever hears about that
candle and about how the dormitory got afire."
"That's why she wouldn't write to him for a contribution to the rebuilding
fund," cried Ruth.
"I guess so," said Curly. "She never said much to me about it. I just
wormed it out of her, as you might say. She isn't so awful happy here, you
bet."
"Oh, Curly! I blame myself," groaned Ruth.
"What for?"
"Because I ought to have learned more about her--got closer to her."
"You might's well try to get close to a prickly porcupine," la
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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.