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This was likely, from the rapid growth and improvement in the neighborhood, to become, within a few years, perhaps, a property of some importance. The other letter was from his son, James Gartney, in San Francisco. The young man urged his father to consider whether it might not be a good idea for him to come out and join him in California. James Gartney's proposal evidently roused his attention.
Faith Gartney came up among the very last. "How many numbers are there to choose from?" she asked. "Three hundred and sixty-five. The number of days in the year." "Well, then, I'll take the number of the day; the last no, I forgot the first of all."
Gertrude Rushleigh, Saidie's old intimate, was to be married on the twenty-eighth, and had fixed her wedding thus for the last of the month, that Miss Gartney might arrive to keep her promise of long time, by officiating as bridesmaid. The family eclipse would not overshadow Saidie. She had made her place in the world now, and with her aunt's aid and countenance, would keep it.
Little birds hopped in and out under the pure, still shelter, and left their tiny tracks, like magical hieroglyphs, in the else untrodden paths. "Lean this way, Faith, and keep steady!" cried Mr. Gartney, as the horse plunged breast high into a drift, and the sleigh careened toward the side Faith was on. It was a sharp strain, but they plowed their way through, and came upon a level again.
Mis' Battis told Luther Goodell afterwards, that she "jest looked in from the next room, at that, and if ever a woman felt cheap all over and as if she hadn't a right to her own toes and fingers, and as if every thread and stitch on her turned mean, all at once it was Mrs. Gimp, that minit!" "Has Faith returned?" Mr. Armstrong asked, of Mrs. Gartney, after a little pause in which Mrs.
Suddenly, the horse, as men and brutes, however sagacious, sometimes will, made a miscalculation of depth or power lost his sure balance sunk to his body in the yielding snow floundered violently in an endeavor to regain safe footing and, snap! crash! was down against the drift at the left, with a broken shaft under him! Mr. Gartney sprang to his head. One runner was up one down.
I guess she'll like strawberries and cream, and whatever comes at the other season, besides red leaves." Now this was kind, sisterly consideration of Faith, however little so it seems, set down. It was very certain that no more acceptable provision could be made for Saidie Gartney in the family plan, than to leave her out, except where the strawberries and cream were concerned.
And then we shouldn't have any society out here. I don't mean for the sake of parties, and going about. But for the improvement of it. I shouldn't like to be shut out from cultivated people." "Faith Gartney!" exclaimed Miss Henderson, facing about in the narrow footway, "don't you go to being fine and transcendental!
Gartney experienced an internal convulsion, but retained her outward composure. "I suppose you would quite as lief be called Parthenia?" "Ruther," replied the relict, laconically. And Mrs. Parthenia Battis was forthwith installed pro tem. in the Cross Corners kitchen. "She's got considerable gumption," was the opinion Luther volunteered, of his own previous knowledge for Mrs.
Rushleigh, "why, else, should she have accepted him? I know Faith Gartney is not mercenary, or worldly ambitious." "I am quite sure of that, as well," answered her husband. "It is no doubt of her motive or her worth I can't say it is really a doubt of anything; but, Gertrude, she must not marry the boy unless her whole heart is in it! A sharp stroke is better than a lifelong pain."
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