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Occasionally a fly or honey-bee came and buzzed about him, but never
alighted upon him, because of the watchful vigilance of the young girl
who stood by his side, shielding him from the sun's rays with her person
and her while cape bonnet, which she also used to scare away the
insects, for Archie McPherson must not be troubled even in his sleep, if
care of hers could prevent it.
The girl who was not more than twelve in reality, though, her training
had made her much older in knowledge and experience, was singularly
beautiful, with great blue eyes and wavy golden hair, which fell in long
curls to her waist. Her dress, though scrupulously neat and clean, and
becoming, indicated that she belonged to the middle or working class,
far below the social position of the boy. But whatever inequality of
rank there was between them, she had never felt it, for ever since she
could remember anything, Archie McPherson had played with and petted and
teased her, and she was almost as much at home at Stoneleigh as in the
work-room of her mother, Mrs.


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