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He was in a stew, I tells you." "What did he do?" questioned Tabitha. "He was so took aback," snickered Philemon, "that he up and says 't was the last he'd have ter do with 'em, an' that they was a lot of clouts an' clodpates, an' they 'd got a captain ter match." "Was that you?" cruelly asked Janice. "No. 'T was Joe Bagby," replied Phil, not so much as seeing the point.
"And just because of his taking parts, he is likely to keep your girl's heart in a state of incertitude, for 't is only mortal for eighteen to fancy twenty more than forty-four. Therefore, unless ye want a gambling bankrupt for a son-in-law, give him his marching orders." "I'll not do that after his kindness to my wife and child; but I'll take good care to warn Janice."
He has gone away, and nobody seems to know where." "They have gone away together!" cried Janice, in despair. "She knew where he was going to be at that hour, sure enough; she would probably have called him at the telephone in the railroad station, anyway. And the catastrophe," he smiled a little, "and Olga's getting so angry, may have changed their plans completely.
It was just as though the printing office of a thriving town newspaper had burned down and there was no means of disseminating the news. This was the effect of the muzzle on Walky Dexter! It was at this point that Janice took Marty, and through him, the other boys, into the scheme.
Janice had done the marketing on her way to school that morning, and had sent home a steak. The steak was already cooked and was on a platter, likewise in the warming oven. And it was yet an hour to dinner time. Janice opened the door to the stairway. There was no sound from that part of the house.
Janice interested the young people's society in the project, too; and her own enthusiasm, plus that of the other young folks, brought the thing about. At the usual Sunday-school entertainment on Christmas night the new piano was used for the first time, and Mrs. Ebbie Stewart, who played it, fairly cried into her score book, she was so glad.
"I take it all back, Daddy," she murmured. "I was ungrateful and suspicious of fate, wasn't I? We don't lose." It took several days for Janice to understand thoroughly just what it meant to have Mammy Blanche in the house. Of course, Mrs. Carringford had been perfectly capable; yet she felt that she must ask Janice or Mr. Day once in a while about things. Not Mammy Blanche!
She ran up the back stairs and looked in the girl's room before she went to her own. Delia was not upstairs. Janice could not see that much had been done in the way of housework at least on the upper floor. Then, suddenly, she discovered where the new girl was. From the living room came the loud drumming of the player piano.
"And the ungraded school could not aid me much." "No, I suppose not," returned the young man. "Well! I hope I see you again, Miss Day." Walky clucked to the horses and they jogged on, leaving Nelson Haley to finish his repairs. Walky chuckled, and said to Janice: "He's quite a flip young feller. He is young to tackle the Poketown school. An' 'twill be an objection, I shouldn't wonder.
During the first days in their new domiciliary, Janice showed the utmost nervousness, seldom leaving her mother's or father's side, and never venturing into the hallways without a previous peep to see that they were empty.
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