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But Mother Pepper shook her head. "We'll all go over to Grandma Bascom's and see if he went there. Then Ben'll be home, and he can run over and tell Deacon Brown. He'll know how to catch the thief." "I'm goin' with Ben," announced Joel, decidedly, and coming into the middle of the kitchen with a bound. "He's my thief. An' I'm goin' with Mr. Brown to catch him. So there!" Mrs.
"I'll forget nothing that's needful. Ben'll be waiting. God help, you, Miss Hallam!" Elizabeth answered with a low cry, and Martha watched her a moment hastening through the rain and darkness, ere she turned back toward the chapel to wait for Ben. A new terror seized Elizabeth as she returned. What if Jasper had locked the doors?
"I should think it would be dull. I'd rather see after the farm, if I was Bella." "You don't mean to tell me you like work?" said Agnetta, staring. "You wouldn't do it, not if you weren't obliged? 'Tain't natural." "I like some," said Lilac. "I like the dairy work and I like feeding the poultry. And I want to learn to milk, if Ben'll teach me.
It'll make her proud an' headin', I know, she'll gin her stepmammy a sight o' trouble, an' I ain't edzactly lamentin' 'bout'n that, but Ben'll take keer o' her all her life, an' good keer, havin' been trained ter it from the fust." But his mother had slept many a year in the little mountain graveyard, and her place was still empty.
Let him go for one long cruise, and see how he likes it. Ten to one he'll come back then and be glad to settle down. He aint the kind of boy to make a sailor of, I judge. There's Ben Bradley, my first wife's cousin, captain of one of them China traders; ship Charley with him. I'll write a line, and I guess Ben'll kind of keep an eye on him for the sake of the connection."
"You can have most all to-day to play in. And then some other day, when there isn't any other work to do, you can pick over some more; and pretty soon, before you know it, they'll all be done, and Ben'll be so surprised, for they'll be ready when he wants to mend the woodshed."
"That ain't Miss Jerusha," said Joel, setting his teeth together, and wishing his hand wouldn't ache so; "and she's talking awful, and Ben's sent us all out." "Then she must be disagreeable," said Mrs. Pepper, beginning to look worried. "Well, I'll soon have this done, then I'll be over. Ben'll have to bear it as best he can," and she sighed.
This is a sound which always excites alarm in a country village. "Where's the fire?" she asked anxiously, of a boy who was running by the house. "It's Crawford's store!" was the startling reply. "It's blazin' up like anything. Guess it'll have to go." "I hope Ben'll keep out of danger," thought Mrs. Barclay, as she hurriedly took her shawl and bonnet and started for the scene of excitement.
"Why " began Polly, and then she finished very slowly, "I shan't know anything, and Ben'll be ashamed of me. "Yes, you will!" cried Mrs. Pepper, energetically, "you keep on trying, and the Lord'll send some way; don't you go to bothering your head about it now, Polly it'll come when it's time." "Will it?" asked Polly, doubtfully, taking up her needle again. "Yes, indeed!" cried Mrs.
Polly didn't sleep much more on her shake-down on the floor than if she had watched with Ben; for Phronsie cried and moaned, and wanted a drink of water every two minutes, it seemed to her. As she went back into her nest after one of these travels, Polly thought: "Well, I don't care, if nobody else gets sick; if Ben'll only get well. To-morrow I'm goin' to do mammy's sack she's begun for Mr.
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