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Bab and Ruth undressed Marjorie Moore, and stayed with her until the doctor and a nurse arrived. Then Bab went quickly to her own room and undressed by a dim light, so as not to disturb her sister. Mollie's face was turned toward the wall and she seemed to be fast asleep. There was no sign of the blue gown about to reawaken Bab's curiosity.
You gave up the music lessons that she might see!" "How d'you know?" she challenged. "Oh, I know!" He told her briefly. "That's all true, isn't it?" "Yes," she admitted. "I can't lie out of it now, I guess. Though I've lied like a trooper about it already. But you needn't get excited about it. Mother Bab's earned more than that from me!" "Oh, Phœbe!"
"I would like to have some money in a hurry," flashed through Bab's mind, but she was ashamed to make such a speech to Ruth, so she said rather soberly. "I have so many wishes its hard to single out one." "Well what are some of them?" persisted Ruth. "Do you wish to be rich, or famous, or to write a great book or a play?" "Oh, yes; I wish all those things, Ruth," Bab agreed.
But Bab resolved to appeal once more to the newspaper girl. She ran to Marjorie Moore and put her arm about the newspaper girl's waist to detain her. She talked to her in her most winning fashion, with her brown eyes glowing with feeling and her lips trembling with eagerness. The tears came to Marjorie Moore's eyes as she listened to Bab's pleading for Harriet.
How dared Harriet Hamlin be so willful, so headstrong? Bab's face was white with anxiety and suspense. Her lips twitched nervously. Then in a flash her whole expression changed. The color came back to her cheeks, the light to her eyes. At the eleventh hour the way had been made clear. Ruth had no such look when she returned to Barbara. She flung herself despondently into a chair.
When Peter refused Bab's proffered rose-bud she then determined to do him any favor that she could whenever he might desire to ask it of her. The next morning the "Automobile Girls" were sitting in the library of Mr. Hamlin's home. Ruth, Mollie and Grace were there, for Peter and Bab had secured their release from the Alexandria jail. "But how do you think he ever accomplished it?"
She even hoped, against hope, that Harriet had been induced to change her mind and that all would yet be well. But as Bab jumped aboard her car she saw another girl, running down the street, waving something in the air and evidently trying to induce Bab's street car to wait for her. Barbara begged the conductor to hold the car for a moment, before she recognized the figure, running toward them.
Sonya, his mother, Hullen R. J., "Lawwie" and "Misser Bangs" all going with him to the hos'tl it was almost too much pleasure! Samuel became slightly intoxicated. "He wants to sing," remarked Laurie, with masculine understanding of a fellow heart. "All right, old man," he encouraged. "How about that beautiful hymn I taught you at Bab's wedding?"
Starr, beckoning for his wife to join him. Of course the children were shown to Mike and the old Indian smiled as he allowed his hand to light gently upon Bab's yellow curls. Most of the timber men knew Mike, or had heard of the trapper, and he was generally welcomed at any camp he visited.
"I must learn to wince without showing it," she thought, "for after she sees she'll keep saying such things and I can't spoil it all by letting her know the truth." Perhaps the optimistic words of Phœbe rang in the ears of the big doctor as he bent over Mother Bab's sightless eyes and began the tedious operation.
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