Cat Running by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Author:Zilpha Keatley Snyder [Snyder, Zilpha Keatley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Usenet, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
ISBN: 9781453271896
Publisher: Open Road
Published: 2012-10-23T01:07:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

ZANE WAS WEARING THE outgrown overalls again. The ones with the faded blue and white stripes and big holes in both knees. He was barefoot as usual and, also as usual, one side of his wide mouth was curled up in a smile that looked a lot like a sneer. Cat and Sammy were still sitting side by side on the rock shelf, and for the longest time Zane just stood there in the doorway staring at them with that mocking grin spread across one side of his face. Finally he nodded his head slowly, rolling out his lower lip like someone thinking, Yeah, I got it. Then he said, “Guess you two little gals been playing doll babies, huh?”

Cat slid down off the ledge. “I wasn’t playing anything,” she said. “We were just talking. And what are you doing here? I thought you said”—Cat put on a deeper voice and a real smart-alecky expression—“‘We got no interest in coming back here no more.’ Didn’t I hear you say something like that?”

Zane went on leaning against the door frame. “Yeah,” he said in a sarcastic tone of voice, “I said that, didn’t I? Jist goes to show you how things change, don’t it? ’Cause, as you might could have noticed, I got me a little interest right there on that shelf, name of Sammy Perkins. When I got home today Sammy was missin’ agin and I was right interested in findin’ out where she’d got to.”

Cat pushed past him and out the door of the cottage. “Yeah, sure,” she said over her shoulder. “So now you got an excuse to come here anytime Sammy’s missing, huh?” She marched to the back of the grotto and, ignoring Zane completely, began straightening up the books on the high rock shelf. But he followed her and, just as if she’d invited him to, he reached up and took down one of her favorites, Smoky the Cow Horse. She glared at him but he pretended to be too interested in the book to notice. After a while he turned toward her.

Pointing to a picture he said, “This here Will James feller draws right good, don’t he? My ma took this here book out of the liberry at Perryton onced. She used to read lots of books like this. ’Bout ranchin’ and cowboys and stuff like that. Read lots of books by a feller named Grey. Zane Grey. She really liked his writin’. You heerd tell of Zane Grey?”

“Sure, I’ve heard of Zane Grey. He’s a real famous writer. Cliff—Cliff’s my brother—he reads Zane Grey a lot.” Suddenly getting the connection, she was about to ask him if he’d been named after the author, when Sammy suddenly appeared in the cottage door. Still holding Marianne-Lillybelle, she stood there for a moment watching Cat and Zane anxiously. Cat watched her, and out of the corner of her eye she watched Zane as well, and for the first time noticed that he could smile almost like a normal person when he wanted to.

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