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As he came in sight of home and saw a light in the small tower where Kate's bedroom lay, he determined he would go up to his sister and tell her so much of his mind as he believed was finally settled, and in such a way as would certainly lead her to repeat it to Nina.
Kate had deliberately absented herself from her post as honorary secretary ever since the decision to fell the old pine had been arrived at. It was her method of protest against the outrage. But Mrs. John Day, quite undisturbed, had appointed a fresh secretary, and Kate's defection had been allowed to pass as a matter of no great importance. The noon meal was on the table when Helen came in.
Adam, Jr., stood there, white and shaken, steadying himself against the casing. "Adam!" cried Kate. "Is Mother ?" He shook his head. "Father ?" she panted. He nodded, seeming unable to speak. Kate's eyes darkened and widened. She gave Adam another glance and opened the door. "Come in," she said. "When did it happen? How did he get hurt?"
"Easy snap for you this winter, Georgie, my boy!" he muttered. "I don't see people falling over each other to get to you for professional services, and it's hard work anyway. Zonoletics are away above the head of these country ignoramuses; blue mass and quinine are about their limit." He took his time to bathe Kate's face. Presently she sat up, then fell on the pillow again.
It meant an ostracism based upon the strongest antipathy the antipathy of a woman wounded in her tenderest emotions, that wonderful natural instinct which is perhaps beyond everything else in her life. The more than pity of it. Kate's interest in Charlie Bryant had assumed proportions which threatened to overwhelm his whole purpose. It became almost a tragedy.
"Wal, 'bout five year ago the squire buried his second wife there 'tis over in there back o' Kate's with the little speckled angel on it. Nobody had seen the squire outside o' his house for years until the funeral he was crippled so with rheumatiz. After that he lived all 'lone in the big house with ol' Tom Linney an' his wife, who've worked there fer 'bout forty year, I guess.
And then she lost the idea, and talked about Kate's great-grandmother, whom she had known, and asked us how she had been this summer. She asked us if we would like to go up stairs where she had a fire, and we eagerly accepted, though we were not in the least cold. Ah, what a sorry place it was!
"Because the denial of matter makes all these things secondary, the effect of the new thought is to make the body more spiritual." "Of course! Why could we not see it before?" was Kate's conclusive query. "What effect then, has this denial on lean people?" asked Mr. Hayden, more seriously, for until now he had been inclined to regard this as a little 'far fetched, as he would have expressed it.
When Martha, as Kate's new acquaintance was called, again entered the apartment, she was accompanied by her aunt, who was dressed just as she had been the night before, with the exception that the strip of red silk had been replaced by a purple band of the same material.
And the worst of it was, they seemed to hold me I couldn't take my eyes from his. He was as kind and courteous as could be, I'll admit that, but even the touch of his fingers made me shiver." Darrell's face had darkened during Kate's recital, but he controlled his anger. "Now, was that due to my own imagination or to some uncanny spell of his?" Kate insisted.
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