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Janice, with natural tact, thought this was no time to probe deeper into the financial affairs of the Carringfords. She saw Gummy, who was a year older than Amy, in the yard. He had got home from school first, and he stared when he saw Janice. "Hullo, Gummy!" the latter called to the boy with the patched trousers. "What are you doing there? Are you laying sod for a border to that garden-bed?"
She inherited all the exclusiveness of the Carringfords, and she was actively scheming to marry Peggy to Cis Eastwood, the heir to the estates of old Lord Drumone. It was the old story of the ambitious mother. Peggy knew this, and, smiling within herself, had pledged her love to Charlie.
"And you really will come up to see him this evening?" urged Janice, blushing rosily at what she considered a compliment. "I I well, my dear, I could not accept any financial favor from your father. I would not have a right to do so. The Carringfords must be independent." "But, Mrs Carringford, you mustn't feel that way! I have no idea Daddy could give you much money, even if you, would let him.
All this wonderful fortune for the Carringfords continued to create so much excitement at the Day house, as well as in the little cottage in Mullen Lane, that for several days Janice scarcely thought about Olga Cedarstrom and the lost treasure-box. For out of the good luck of the Carringfords, bad fortune for the Days suddenly raised its head. Mrs.
Celeste, taciturn and secretive, kept herself between mother and daughter insistently, and often the door to Molly's room was locked until afternoon. Mrs. Garnier must not be disturbed, she said. One of these times, a day in late July, Alexina went out to the Carringfords'. Emily knew most of the comings and goings of Alexina and her mother.
She herself sometimes ran barefooted around the house and yard, though she was growing too big for that now, and she did not blame the little Carringfords for wanting to do so. At any rate, she was very, very grateful to Mrs. Carringford for stepping into the breach at this time and helping them and grateful to Amy and Gummy, as well.
Carringford has no money to pay lawyer's fees, or settle cases," urged Janice. "True. And that is the unfortunate part of it. Let us wait and see what Mr. Payne advises after he has looked into the matter. Whatever he says, she would better do." This ended the matter for the time being. But all the dark clouds of trouble seemed to have lowered upon the Carringfords again.
Won't you try him?" The outcome of this attempt to help the Carringfords was one of the many things Janice had to confide to daddy that evening. As she told him, she had put little dependence upon the hope of finding another houseworker easily. And that was well, for Mr. Day had found nobody at the agencies. He would not trust engaging a girl again, unseen.
They had loved her, they had been good to her. Mrs. Leroy had rocked her, the Captain had held her on his knee. She sprang up and went to bathe her eyes. If she knew where they were, or how to find them, she would go She wondered if Emily or her mother had known about this. She went to the Carringfords' the next afternoon.
It was not of their own troubles that they talked mostly on this evening, however, but of some other people's troubles. After they were out of the kitchen and settled in the living-room, Janice began to tell him about the Carringfords. "They are just the nicest people you ever saw Daddy. Amy and Gummy are coming over here tomorrow after Sunday School so that you can meet them."
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