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"I been quartermaster in that line myself." "All right," returned Wicks. "There's the book. Read what Hoyt says read it aloud and let the others hear."
Lucy's room was prepared in the exact manner in which she had left it, and presently the visitors drove back to Elmhurst. In the evening the doctor made the journey a second time, accompanying the unconscious form of Lucy, which was attended by a maid Louise had sent with her. The girl was undressed and put to bed in her own room, and then everyone except Dr. Hoyt returned to Elmhurst.
"Are you their sister?" sternly demanded Mr. Strong of the older girl. "No, I ain't! They live next door and Mrs. Hoyt left the kids with me till she got back." "Where is your house?" "On top of the hill," she muttered sullenly. "Then how does it come they are so far from home?" "They ran away." "She shut us out of hern house," said Loie, "and we went to fin' mamma."
He thinks it outrageous that we should not be there, says it is to be the prettiest ever given at the fort, and that Mrs. Hoyt and Mrs. Craven, who are the managers for the ladies, had asked him to lead. He wants to know if we cannot possibly come." "Are you not very eager to go, Alice? I should be," said Aunt Grace, with sympathetic interest. "Yes, I am," answered Miss Renwick, reflectively.
"In 1829 my father, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died at Lebanon away from home, leaving his widow, Mary Hoyt of Norwalk, Conn. Vernon, a merchant. "Surely 'Man proposes and God disposes. I could fill a hundred pages, but will not bore you.
"Well, now," said Hoyt, trying to be soothing, as he believed it was always best to be with women, to tell the truth he was an ignoramus where women were concerned, "I think it would be better if you didn't look at them. There are reasons why " he ambled on like this, stupid man that he was, till the lady naturally insisted upon seeing the pictures without a moment's delay.
"Then we will go," she said, turning to her maid and addressing her in French. "Janette, we depart!" The maid rose with suspicious alacrity. The spaniel yawned and looked at me out of the corner of his black eye. I believe that he recognized me. "Dare I ask you to honor us by lunching with my cousin and myself here, Miss Van Hoyt?" I asked eagerly.
"Well, to tell the truth," stammered Hoyt, "they didn't come out quite quite as well as we could wish." "But let me see them," persisted the lady. "I'd like to look at them anyhow."
The streets were still quiet, but hearses and carts, filled with coffins, no longer greeted her on every side, and she walked for several squares. The sun went down, and, too weary to extend her ramble, she slowly retraced her steps. The buggy no longer stood at the door, and, after seeing Mrs. Hoyt and trying to chat pleasantly, she crept back to Clara. "Where have you been?" asked the latter.
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