Somebody is going to design
them. Why shouldn't I, if it pleases you to have me?"
"It pleases me very greatly," said Peter--"more than anything
else I can think of in all the world at this minute."
And then he did a thing that he had done once or twice before.
He bent back Linda's fingers and left another kiss in the palm of
her hand, and then he closed her fingers very tightly over it.
CHAPTER XXXI. The End of Donald's Contest
The middle of the week Linda had told Katy that she intended
stocking up the Bear Cat for three and that she would take her
along on the next Saturday's trip to her canyon kitchen. It was
a day upon which she had planned to gather greens, vegetables,
and roots, and prepare a dinner wholly from the wild. She was
fairly sure exactly where in nature she would find the materials
she wanted, but she knew that the search would be long and
tiring. It would be jolly to have Katy to help her prepare the
lunch. It would please Katy immensely to be taken; and the
original things she said in her quaint Irish brogue greatly
amused Donald. The arrangement had been understood among them
for some time, so they all started on their journey filled with
happy expectations. They closed the house and the garage
carefully. Linda looked over the equipment of the Bear Cat
minutely making sure that her field axe, saw, knives, and her
field glasses were in place. Because more food than usual was to
be prepared in the kitchen they took along a nest of cooking
vessels and a broiler.
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