Sections 1 Underneath the Long Trestle where Broderson Creek cut the line of the railroad and the Upper… 2 Sitting upon the bank, one finger tucked into the heel of her shoe, Hilma hesitated. 3 However, as Hilma still debated the idea of bathing her feet in the creek, a train did… 4 Now, to-day, however, he had her all to himself. 5 “Pretty place,” 6 “What do you say, Miss Hilma?” 7 “What do you say? 8 “Well, now, Hilma, what are we going to do?” 9 “Oh!” 10 That same morning Dyke's mother had awakened him according to his instructions at daybreak. 11 He breakfasted alone, Mrs. 12 The fact of the matter was that the old restlessness had once more seized upon Vanamee. 13 At the drug store, which also kept a stock of miscellaneous stationery, his eye was caught… 14 He emerged once more into the street and went up the block leisurely, planting his feet… 15 Dyke looked at him with attention. 16 “Well, there's where you are wrong, m'son,” 17 “I don't remember it,” 18 Anger was not in him yet; no rousing of the blind, white-hot wrath that leaps to the attack… 19 Dyke went down the stairs to the street and proceeded onward aimlessly in the direction of… 20 From all points of view, the story was discussed by those who listened to him, now in the… 21 “And now it's your turn,” 22 “Do you blame us now,” 23 He went away without a word, his head bent, his hands clutched tightly on the cork grips of… 24 He galloped away along the Lower Road, in the direction of Quien Sabe, emerging from the… 25 For the first time doubt assailed him. 26 The Trees' little house, toward which inevitably Annixter directed his steps, was dark. 27 He found the irrigating ditch, and the beaten path made by the ditch tenders that bordered… 28 It was true, he might have Hilma, even now, if he was willing to marry her. 29 Abruptly there was presented to his mind's eye a picture of the years to come, if he now…
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