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Gartney and Faith were busy packing boxes to go to Kinnicutt. Only a passing shade had been flung on the project which seemed to brighten into sunshine, otherwise, the more they looked at it, when Mrs. Gartney suddenly said, after a long "talking over," the second evening after the proposal had been first broached: "But what will Saidie say?"
Three years old, nearly! And Faith and Margaret laughed, and Mrs. Gartney listened, and dispensed dinner, or spoke gently now and then, and Paul did his cleverest with Mr. Gartney, so that the latter gentleman declared afterwards that "young Rushleigh was a capital fellow; well posted; his father's million didn't seem to have spoiled him yet."
Gartney sighed. "I'm no more than a mere useless block of wood!" "We shall just have to set you up, and make an idol of you, then!" cried Faith, cheerily, with tears on her eyelashes, that she winked off. There had been a ring at the bell while they were speaking; and now Mrs. Gartney entered, followed by Dr. Gracie.
So, since the days of the disciples, men have grown heavy and forgotten their trust. So they have slumbered upon decks, at sea. So sentinels have lain down at picket posts, though they knew the purchase of that hour of rest might be the leaden death! Faith Gartney dreamed, uneasily. She thought herself wandering, at night, through the deserted streets of a great city.
The October sun, that mantled them with warmth and glory; the Indian summer, that transfigured earth about them; all tints all redolence all broad beatitude of globe and sky were none too much to breathe out and make palpable the glad and holy auspice of the hour. Mr. Gartney had gradually relinquished his half-formed thought of San Francisco.
Armstrong, whom her father now assisted to the armchair again, took the wine from her hand, with a smile that thanked her, and depreciated himself. "I am not ill," he said. "It is all over now. It was the sudden shock. I did not think I could have been so weak." Mrs. Gartney had gone to find some hartshorn. Mrs.
Frequently he made some slight suggestion of a journey, or other summer change. "You must urge it, if you can, Mrs. Gartney," he said, privately, to the wife. "I don't quite like his looks. Get him away from business, at almost any sacrifice," he came to add, at last. "At every sacrifice?" asked Mrs. Gartney, anxious and perplexed. "Business is nearly all, you know."
Etherege had engaged rooms, on her arrival, at the Mishaumok House; and it seemed to be taken for granted by her, and by Saidie as well, that this coming home was a mere visit; that Miss Gartney would, of course, spend the greater part of the winter with her aunt; and that lady extended also an invitation to Mishaumok for a month including the wedding festivities at the Rushleighs' to Faith.
"Gartney!" said Dr. Gracie, "you'd better mind what this girl of yours says. She's worth attending to." The wedge had been entered, and Faith's hand had driven it. The plan was taken into consideration.
"Whereabouts do you suppose Jericho to be?" asked Faith, laughing. "I don't know. It's where she keeps wishing I was, when she's cross, and I want anything. I wish she was there! and I mean to ask papa to send her!" "Go and take your hat off, Hendie, and have your hair brushed, and your hands washed, and then come back in a nice quiet little temper, and we'll talk about it," said Mrs. Gartney.
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