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"If I can find out how she likes it," was his enigmatic answer. "She may not work out as I want her to. Heroines are women, you know." "Well, of all things! If you can't make your heroine behave, I don't see who can!" "I don't," he said slowly. "But I shall do my best." Another day, she had something to show him, and she made a little mystery of it at first. She and Elly Precious knew!
"Why, of course! He's too valuable to leave anywheres. Leave a Best Baby! That's the s'prise! He's a prize baby, Elly Precious is! I've got it in my pocket!" "I've got to take him home an' bed him down!" Horsey little Evangeline! "Then I'll come back an' show it to you. Isn't it puffectly elegant that he took a prize! We've had the best time!"
At the end of the meal the minister asked: "Have you a Bible in the house?" "I reckon there's one around somewhere. Elly, go 'n see 'f y' can't raise one," said Mrs. Buttles, indifferently. "Have you any objection to family devotion?" asked Pill, as the book was placed in his hands by the girl. "No; have all you want," said Bacon, as he rose from the table and passed out the door.
I mean all day, with no chores, or farmin', or anything." "I don't know," Elly confessed. "Mr. Clark, of course, he's busy cooking and washing dishes and keeping house, but . . ." "Are there three of them?" Aunt Hetty stopped her dudsing in her astonishment. "I thought you said two." "Oh well, Mr. Marsh sent down to the city and had this Mr. Clark come up to work for them. He doesn't call him 'Mr.
Elly was the only creature in the world at whom the old Indian ever smiled, indeed almost the only thing in the house which those absent old eyes ever seemed to see. Marise remembered that Touclé had smiled when she first took the baby Elly in her arms. A little murmur of talk arose now, from the assembled neighbors.
He didn't bloom out reg'lar built till next day I mean she didn't oh, I don't mean the mother didn't " "I know, dear; I know what you mean," soothed Miss Theodosia gently. "Yes'm, that's what I mean. Next day they found out for sure." "But have you found out 'for sure'? How do you know Elly Precious has the measles? Has he bloomed out? Perhaps his are speck "
It takes time; you tell them to be patient and we'll find the right go-cart." She appealed to the Man Person. "Sure, we'll find the right go-cart! Where do you think they could have vanished? Down a hole in the ground?" Miss Theodosia clapped her hands valiantly. "That's it! Evangeline found a hole and took Elly Precious down, to show him the White Rabbit and the Red Queen!
He had the effect of peeping at Miss Theodosia through roses. But what she could see of him was Elly Precious her baby. "Stefana posed him," the Story Man said, smilingly. "And Evangeline and Carruthers, too. Look at Evangeline." Across Evangeline trailed the roses. It was a rigid, terribly rigid, Evangeline, but the roses saved her.
"You can go and sweep off the front porch, and straighten out the cushions and chairs, and water the porch-box geraniums." He disappeared, whistling loudly, "Massa's in the cold, cold ground." Marise hoped automatically that Elly was not in earshot to hear this.
Grandfather's dead now she's thankful enough she didn't wait any longer. He was so pleased. He said be could depart this life easier, leavin' an Elihu Flagg behind him. An', anyway, Mother says Elly can call himself his middle name, if he'd ruther, when he's twenty-one his middle name's Launcelot."
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