o bring Mr. Dick up. Everything was quiet that day and the day after, except that

ome out early in the morning and curl it all over her head, heating the curler on the fire log. I never smell burnt hair that I don't think of Miss Cobb trying to do the back of her neck. She was one of our regula

nt at any time, but he had been worse than usual. Annie, the chambermaid, told Miss Cobb that the trouble was about settlements, and that the more Miss Patty tried to tell him it was the European custom the

nnie, they're not married yet, and if Father Jennings gets ugly and makes any sort of scandal it's all o

t often enough in

he day before that Mr. Dick was on the way. But we met every train with a sleigh,

sixth day came the lawyer, a Mr. Stitt. Mr. Thoburn was going around with a s

and Mrs. Biggs coming down the path to the spring-house, Mrs. Biggs with her crocheting

d she'd only lived so long by the care she took of herself-"but I thought I'd better come and speak to you. Please don't irritate Mr

ture, although she could drink more spring water than any h

before, and when a fat man starts to live on his own

ut Miss Cobb waited a mome

back," she said, "

d, staring at her

heard him ask for Mr. Carter. It se

ever knew it. As she started after Mrs. Biggs I saw Mr. Sam hurrying down the

and slammed the

Mr. Dick not bein

almly. I am always calm when other people get excited. For that reason

I put him on the train myself yesterday, and w

you want him to go," I said dryly, "is t

styne, although I have a sign in the

oing when you last lai

on the

he al

es

tti

. What the de

t the wind

lstyne testily. "He was raising the

uld you know the girl we

rying to be polite. "Out of a thousand a

comer in the family, Mr. Van Alstyne; you don't remember the time he went down here to the station to see his Aunt

air, and through force of habit I

ty girl, too," h

, and it seemed to me that father's crayon en

Van Alstyne drank t

e," he said. "Who's runni

anything comes up they consult me. The housekeeper

looking after

re," I explained, "and I know their tre

!" he said, eying me. "And

spring water has been ordered cold for eleven years, and I refus

ing seemed to strike him. "I say," he said; "about the doctor-that's all right, you know

that in the slack season it would be cheaper to get a good woman

p his hat and lo

d no sign of that puppy yet.

p in my throat, "but to have to sit and do nothing whil

day's over. If anybody can sail the old bark to shore, you can do it, Minnie. You'v

out to the spring-house until after three o'clock. She shook the snow off her fur

nally, "aren't you

ked, and sw

t me know. I've just this minute hear

't hope much. Like as not Mr. Dick will turn up

ed when she took it how pale she was. Bu

ht that she was thinking of her own troubles as well as mine, for she put down the glass and stood looking at her e

Patty, is there?" I asked, and she

about some things, but I dare say he'll come around. I don't mind his fussing with me, but-

pleasant notoriety themselves occasionally. I should think they'd fall over themselves

e only

innie," she said. "You

o," I snapped, and fel

fternoon train was in, and no Mr. Dick. Mr. Sam was keeping the lawyer, Mr. Stitt, in the billiard room, and by four o'clock they'd ha

for me except a note from Mr. Sam, rather shaky, which said he'd no word yet and that M

aid there was only one other train from town that night a

t," he said in an undertone. But I went into my pantry and

I put the broom in the fire and started to sweep the porch with a fire log Luckily they were busy with their let

ing how well he felt since he stopped eating, and

out his stomach isn't happy until he

is hand, "it's worth while to feel like this. My head's as clear as a bel

nator," said the bishop; "first,

ears by the scraped-beef treatment, and somebody else never touches a thing but raw eggs and milk, and pretty soon there is a riot of calories and carbohydrates. It alwa

s hand. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "let us not be rancorous. If each of us has

the good news!" Mr. Jennings

If some folks were hea

, and I saw there was something wrong. She had a letter open in her lap not one of the blue ones with the black and gold se