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Half a dozen seamstresses, and as many sewing machines, were busy in New York hands, feet, and wheels in making up the delicate draperies for the trousseau; and Madame A was frantic with the heap of elaborate dresses that was thrust upon her hands, and must be ready for the thirtieth. Mrs. Gartney and Faith had enough to do, to put the house and themselves in festival trim.
Gartney at last remedied the pronominal difficulty by invariably applying all remarks bearing no other indication, to that other "he" of the household Luther. Her own claim to the matronly title she gave up all hope of establishing; for, if the "relic'" abbreviated her own wifely distinction, how should she be expected to dignify other people?
Gartney were felicitating each other, cheerily, upon the great good that had fallen to the lot of their cherished child, that child sat by her open window, looking out into the summer night; the tossing elm boughs whispering weird syllables in her ears, and the stars looking down upon her soul struggle, so silently, from so far! "Mr.
"I, Faith Henderson, spinster, in sound mind, and of my own will, direct these things. "That to my dear grandniece, Faith Henderson Gartney, be given from me, as my bequest, that portion of my worldly property now invested in two stores in D Street, in the city of Mishaumok. That this property and interest be hers, for her own use and disposal, with my love.
I'll give you that much leave of absence, and then we'll have things back again as they were before." "I guess you will! And further than they were before. No, Mr. Gartney, you've got to behave. I won't have them vicious-looking accounts about, and it don't signify." "If it don't, why not?" But it ended in the accounts and the carpetbag disappearing together.
Gartney, who, after taking her first to the bedside of the patient, had withdrawn with her to the little dressing room adjoining, and given her a résumé of the treatment thus far followed, with the doctor's last directions to herself "you just go downstairs to your supper. I know, by your looks, you ain't had a mouthful to-day. That's no way to help take care of sick folks." Mrs.
Meanwhile, they would inquire if the region round about Kinnicutt might be expected to afford a substitute. Dr. Wasgatt's wife told Mrs. Gartney of a young American woman who was staying in the "factory village" beyond Lakeside, and who had asked her husband if he knew of any place where she could "hire out." Dr.
"And then, that all this residue of personal effects, and my real estate in the Old Homestead at Kinnicutt Cross Corners, and my shares in the Kinnicutt Bank, be placed in the hands of my nephew, Henderson Gartney, to be held in trust during the natural life of my worthy and beloved handmaiden, Gloriana McWhirk; for her to occupy said house, and use said furniture, and the income of said property, so long as she can find at least four orphan children to maintain therewith, and 'make a good time for, every day.
"Oh," replied Mrs. Gartney, "there is nothing of that! You know what nurse told us, last evening. It isn't quite likely that a man would faint away at the memory of one woman, if his thoughts were turned, the least, in that way, upon another. No, indeed! She is his Sunday scholar, and he treats her always as a very dear young friend. But that is all." "Maybe. But is it quite safe for her?
"You see you have six hundred and fifty dollars a year from these, and this house would be six hundred more, and mother says she can manage on that, in the country, if I will help her." Mr. Gartney shaded his eyes with his hand. Not wholly, perhaps, to shield them from the light. "You're a good girl, Faithie," said he, presently; and there was assuredly a little tremble in his voice.
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