Show PLACING THE BLAME I 1 the logs loga blazed and crackled with all the luxurious disregard of expense which logs in the fireplace of a wealthy auntry club should have Oid oora a mist turned the prospect gray defore before the fire redlands sat with a pile at new magazines lie ile had decided that the links ton wet to degott ate presently in floated mrs lira kreeble it haq not at all the sort of day for a woman to be at a golf club and redlands frowned lie ha observed also that mrs airs kreeble looked more animated than usual tula this caused him same ome alarm redlands loves quiet and cohort and he was very comfortable just then oh saiu mrs airs kreeble as she barged domn the room at him am im so glad you are beret I 1 was just hoping to find 8 edme e one come and help me to pick violets echoed redlands in great scorn attempting to hide bide hla his fear that the she would indeed make him do it I 1 in 15 this rain you 11 catch an awful cold coldly I 1 have on thick shoes said eald hla his or mentor sweetly and look my husbands s rain raincoat coati you know faither objected redlands desperately I 1 am subject to litle I 1 had a terrible attack of t once you are the picture of health said mrs lira kreeble of course if you dont aro are to im dying to go said cald redlands redlan de hastily las getting to his feet with a last ook at the crackling fire ile ha got an umbrella um biella and they started aalf a mile from the clubhouse abbick a bl ick loud of wind and rain swooped down n them when the darkness lifted mrs kars Kree kreeble bles s umbrella was wrong tide ide out and her hair was coming lown lets go back she moaned redlands Red landa took a mean advantage Ne never verl he said eald firmly the only ede redeeming eming feature of a foolish under aking Is really accomplishing what rou have set out to do we came to dick lck violets and violets I 1 intend to lck then said mrs mra Kree bles as she law a summer bummer house looming booming up brough the driving rain you go pick hem while I 1 do up my hairl hair over in hose woods the grass is so long and ivet et anal ana t dare go there dinv inv wl redlands went being about as wet 0 his knees as it was possible for hu nan being to be he did not much are when he got to the woods he aund nothing but mud ile he return cl I 1 0 mrs airs kreeble and reported there ire no violets well said mr air kreeble jauntily ler ier hair now being pinned up it does lot so eo much matter see that per estly lovely apple tree over there IQ in ull blooml bloom I 1 id d love to have some of he blossoms blossom sl cant you manage A ja tile the upshot of it was TOB that redlands Red landa 11 limbed bed the small apple tree all that of redlands which the a had kept tolerably dry now re elved a shower bath from tue te trem aing branches also mrs kreeble rom below vociferously objected to its ifa shaking off all the blossoms she wondered von dered irritably why he had neglect d to bring hla his knife finally she he elved with an injured air the ranches he threw down to her that t was a thornapple thor napple tree and red ands had bad met most of the callec collection t I 1 0 ix 1 n his way up and down did not inter st her at all it occurred to mrs airs kreeble then that chat marshy places were mere the best bes ifor tor so they hunted for a marsh everything in the pouring rain looked like ilke a marsh but the coveted violets violets lid not appear finally on the steep banks of a little creek some blue blossoms showed dy BY lying down on he green and reaching far out red lied lands managed to collect quite a hand band ul ful oh thank you I 1 cried mrs airs kreeble is sue she took them all of course these are not many but they 11 dot do now let a go back yes said the dripping Ehi shivering vering disgruntled ils redlands by all means let a go back As they stepped on to the clubhouse porch wet bedraggled pools of water flowing from their garments kreeble blin himself self appeared ho he surveyed them sternly even it if a woman a scrap of sense he be remarked icily one would lid vatura naturally lly think a man might have a little it you both don t have ula 1 I 1 believe I 1 am rather damp rd ad bitted mrs airs kreeble greebe wed we d better go and have tea john take us to tea no this little outing will not flot have its finishing touch it if mr air redlands Red landa doesn doean t get stuck for the tea take us to tea mr air Red lanca so redlands did |