noon
Last week I persuaded Terry to take a try at Meredith and lent him my green cloth copy of _ Harry Richmond _ . Three days ago I found the seventh page turned down at the corner , and suspecting that this marked the final frontier of his advance , I tied a strand of green silk thread about the volume . It was still there this morning , though Terry daily and stoutly maintains that he 's getting on grand with that fine green book of mine ! But at noon to-day when Dinky-Dunk got back from Buckhorn he handed Terry a parcel , and I noticed the latter glanced rather uneasily about as he unwrapped it . This afternoon I discovered that it held two new books in paper covers . One was _ The Hidden Hand _ and the other was called _ The Terror of Tamaraska Gulch _ . Terry , of late , has been doing his reading in his own room .