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All day long there was a note of gladness in Jerrie's heart which manifested itself in snatches of song, and low, warbling, whistled notes, which sounded more as if they came from a canary's than from a human throat.
'There, that completes your costume, he said, holding her off a little to look at her. 'By the way, haven't you got yourself up uncommonly well this morning? I never saw you as pretty as you are in this rig. If it would not be very improper, I'd like to kiss you. He was astonished at his own boldness, and not at all surprised at Jerrie's reply, as she stepped back from him.
Here Jerrie's hands beat the air excitedly as she recalled the wild fancy which had twice taken possession of her that night, and which had been born of that likeness seen in the mirror.
They had come back to commonplaces now, Jerrie's clairvoyant spell had passed and she was herself again, simple Jerrie Crawford, walking along the familiar path, and talking of the cow which Frank Tracy had given her when it was a little sickly calf, whose mother had died. She had taken it home and nursed it so carefully that it was now a healthy little Jersey, whom she called Nannie.
They sat down together on a sofa, and taking up a newspaper, Arthur fanned Jerrie gently, while she said to him: 'Do you really think I look like Gretchen? 'Yes; except that you are taller. You might be her daughter. 'Had she had Gretchen a daughter? was Jerrie's next question, put hesitatingly. 'None that I ever heard of, Arthur replied. 'Why do you ask that?
He was so broken, so like a child in his appeal to her, that Jerrie's tears came fast as she told him of her approaching marriage and what her father intended doing for him. Then Frank broke down entirely, and cried like a child. 'I don't deserve it, and I know I owe it to you, whom I have injured so much, he said, while Jerrie tried to comfort him.
In his anxiety and worry about the diamonds Harold had scarcely given a thought to what Peterkin had said of Jerrie's refusal of Billy, for it seemed so improbable that the latter would presume to offer himself to her; but at sight of Billy's face it came back to him with a throb of pity for the man, and a thrill of joy for himself for whom Peterkin had said his son was rejected.
Nannine will take him my Bible, with passages marked by me, and a photograph which I had taken a year ago, and which will tell you how I looked then. Now I am so thin and pale that Arthur would hardly know me. I send, too, a lock of Jerrie's hair, cut when she was three weeks old. Darling Jerrie! She is such a comfort to me, and so old and womanly for her years!
With a half comical smile Tom replied, 'I told him the Old Nick was to pay, though I am afraid I used a stronger name for his Satanic majesty than that. I guess you'll have to try what you can do. And so Jerrie's message, 'I need you, went across the continent, and brought the ready response, 'coming on the wings of the wind. It was Judge St.
She had seen Tom that morning, and when to her question, 'Why are you up so early? he replied, 'To attend to Jerrie's affairs, she tossed her head scornfully, and said: 'Before I'd crawl after any girl, much less Jerrie Crawford! You'd better be attending to your own sister. She's worse this morning, and looks as if she might die any minute.
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