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Once, indeed, the girl had said, as if unable to restrain herself, and while dressing Mrs. Cora's yellow hair a task which she professed to delight in: "Ah! madame, if only it was you who were my mistress! It is a pleasure to dress a beautiful mistress, but to be constantly at war against nature, to make an old one young faugh! it is labor."
The transom of Laura's door shone brightly; but the knob, turning uselessly in Cora's hand, proved the door itself not so hospitable. There was a brief rustling within the room; the bolt snapped, and Laura opened the door. "Why, Laura," said Cora, observing her sister with transient curiosity, "you haven't undressed. What have you been doing? Something's the matter with you.
I came to thank these people for their kindness to me a few years ago." "Are you he whom I found by the brook, wounded and dying?" asked Charles. "I am." "Your mysterious disappearance occasioned much comment." Before the stranger could frame an answer, the door was again thrown open, and this time it was Cora's father, in reality, who entered the house.
Brace up, little girl"; and he tried to impart both courage and hope by his manner. "Don't you know you are sure to get some wonderful blessing for having to stand this loss? That's Cora's pet theory. She almost drives a fellow after trouble declaring he will find joy at his heels." Wren was sighing. Her book had been to her so much.
"Sorry I couldn't beat you!" called the young man, waving his hand to the girls in Cora's boat. "You had more speed than I thought." "Are you sure it was a fair race?" asked Cora, looking at him sharply. Her tone was peculiar. "A fair race? What do you mean?" he asked, wonderingly. "Do you think I should have given myself more of a handicap?"
Kimball pressed back on the pillow the frail form of the eager girl. Inez struggled for a moment, and then lay quiet. But she murmured, over and over again: "Oh, if he has if he has my father he may never see ze outside of ze prison again!" "We will help you," said Cora's mother, softly. "If there has been a robbery, the authorities shall be notified. I will have one of the girls inquire.
Meantime, Cora's aunt was casting about for her own comfort, after the girl should wed with White, and planning her arrangements without a thought that clouds were in the sky. And then came the amber heart into the affair, and to Cora's immense astonishment James gave her a gift.
I dropped it in the tool-box of Cora's car. I was mean to do it, for I thought it might make a mix-up and add to the joke." Jack murmured something inaudible, and Cora shot a warning glance at her brother. "Yes, it was a poor joke," admitted Sid weakly, "but I've learned a lesson.
"I am truly grieved to have intruded at so inopportune a time," asserted the visitor, and arose to take leave. Then Cora's conscience smote her for her inhospitable rudeness.
"Well, I am going to try, at any rate," and Daisy Bennet quickened her pace, while Maud Morris hurried along with her companion. It was but a few minutes' walk to the garage, and when the girls reached the entrance they were surprised to find the three automobiles, Jack's, Cora's and the twins' pulled up outside. "Oh, I can't go in now," demurred Daisy. "We will have to wait until they go.
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