"Tell me!" flashed the Little Doctor. "I told him Senator Blake was
coming, and that he wanted to buy the picture, and he just made him
a cigarette and said, 'Ye--e-es?' And after that there wasn't any
conversation of any description!"

Weary threw back his head and laughed.

"That sure sounds just like him," he said, and at that minute Chip
himself hobbled into the corral, and the Little Doctor hastened to
leave it and retreat to the house.






CHAPTER XVII.
When a Maiden Wills.



It was Dunk who drove to meet the train, next day, and it was an
extremely nervous young woman who met Senator Blake upon the porch.
Chip sprawled in the hammock on the east porch, out of sight.

The senator was a little man whose coat did not fit, and whose hair was
sandy and sparse, and who had keen, twinkling blue eyes which managed
to see a great deal more than one would suspect from the rest of his
face. He pumped the Little Doctor's hand up and down three times and