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"Why, Ellie, what on earth do you mean? Not that you're going to part from poor Nelson?" Mrs. Vanderlyn met her reproachful gaze with a crystalline glance. "I don't want to, heaven knows poor dear Nelson! I assure you I simply hate it. He's always such an angel to Clarissa... and then we're used to each other. But what in the world am I to do?
She and Streffy are waiting to take me to the station, and I've run up to say good-bye." "Ellie, dear!" Full of compunction, Lansing pushed aside his writing and started up; but she pressed him back into his seat. "No, no! I should never forgive myself if I'd interrupted you. I oughtn't to have come up; Susy didn't want me to. But I had to tell you, you dear.... I had to thank you..."
And so, Judge Priest, while I thank you with all my heart for your thoughtfulness and your kindness, and while I'd be glad, too, if Ellie saw fit or could be made to see that it would be a fine thing to give me this money in the way you have suggested, I say to you again that I cannot be the one to go to her. I will not even write to her on the subject. That, with me, is final."
He was silent a few minutes, and then stopped his walk. "There is something wrong, then, with you, Ellie," he said, gently. "How has it been through the week? If you can let day after day pass without remembering your best Friend, it may be that when you feel the want you will not readily find Him.
I didn't mean to wait for him; but it won't delay me more than day or two." Susy's heart sank. She was not much afraid of Ellie alone, but Ellie and Nelson together formed an incalculable menace. No one could tell what spark of truth might dash from their collision. Susy felt that she could deal with the two dangers separately and successively, but not together and simultaneously.
But now, Ellie, I think I can see it has done me good, and I can even be thankful for it. All things are ours all things the world, and life, and death too." "Alice," said Ellen, as well as she could "you know what you were saying to me the other day?" "About what, love?" "That about you know that chapter." "About the death of Lazarus?" "Yes. It has comforted me very much."
Where was now the proud home-coming? Ellie was taken to the hospital, whither frightened Mrs. Connors was summoned. Upon one of the cots in the accident ward lay the child, her small face wan with pain, and in her eyes the startled expression noticeable in those of a person who has had a serious fall.
Bedonebyasyoudid, came next, Tom asked her. "Little boys who are only fit to play with sea beasts cannot go there," she said. "Why, did Ellie do that?" "Ask her." And Ellie blushed, and said, "Yes, Tom, I did not like coming here at first; I was so much happier at home, where it is always Sunday. And I was afraid of you, Tom, at first, because because " "Because I was all over prickles?
Ellie was waiting for Julia, eager to hear what Miss Jane wore, and Miss Constance wore, and how "Miss Teddy" looked. "I am absolutely done, Ellie," said the mistress, when the filmy lace gown was back in its box, and she was comfortably settled on her pillows, "so don't come in until I ring." "And I hope you'll get a long sleep," Ellie said approvingly, "you've got to take care of yourself now!"
"I do believe you would take more care of his legs than of your own," said Miss Sophia. "But you'll be here to-morrow early, Ellie?" "Oh, won't I?" exclaimed Ellen, as she sprang to Alice's neck "as early as I can, at least; I don't know when Aunt Fortune will have done with me." The way home seemed as nothing. If she was tired, she did not know it.
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