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The stock of social life in Springdale, in fact, was running low. The Lennoxes and the Wilcoxes had gone to their Boston homes, and Rose Ferguson was visiting in New York, and Letitia found so much to do to supply her place to her father and mother, that she had less time than usual to share with Grace.
Springett inherited the devout spirit of his parents; his father wrote an affecting account of his pious death. Of the two remaining, William fell into ways of dissipation, and Letitia married a man whom her father disliked. Neither of them had any inheritance in Pennsylvania. Penn's ship, the Welcome, carried a hundred passengers, most of them Quakers from his own neighborhood.
Then there was another cry of astonishment. Goodwife Hopkins cast about her for another task for this ignorant guest. "Explain the doctrine of predestination," said she suddenly. Letitia jumped up and stared at her with scared eyes. "Don't you know what predestination is?" demanded Goodwife Hopkins. "No, ma'am," half sobbed Letitia.
"I did to be sure," returned Miss Letitia, coming into her mother's room and flinging herself into an armchair, "when I was crossing the bridge it was. He roared to me to hurry you and Hannah. Holy Mary Joseph! How stiff I am! That old horn on the saddle has the right leg cut off me!" "Well, never mind your legs now," replied Mrs.
"You'd better," said the elder Letitia; "if I had a brother as big as you, he'd have to work instead of hunting rabbits." Josephus flew about the kitchen dragging heavy logs, and poking the fire, and Letitia quite admired him, but her great-great-grandmother simply scolded. "You are a most unhandy boy," said she. "You can have had little training in making hearth fires."
Goodloe had to help unloosen her belt for her. The meeting broke up with ice cream on Jessie for everybody. We all belong to home mission societies and sewing circles and " "You want me to get you out of your purgatory and let you backslide to " "Don't say it!" exclaimed Letitia with a laugh. "But we just want not to hurt his feelings and " "We won't," I said grimly.
As we have said, Letitia Ferguson came in at the back door without knocking, and, coming softly behind Miss Grace, laid down her bunch of roses among the flowers, and then set down her plate of seed-cakes. Then she said, "I brought you some specimens of my Souvenir de Malmaison bush, and my first trial of your receipt." "Oh, thanks!" said Miss Grace: "how charming those roses are!
"How long have you been here?" "I don't know. It must have been a long time, for I have done so much work, and learned to do so much that I had started with all done." "It is just the same with me," whispered the boy. Letitia shivered, half with joy, half with horror. "Did you come through a little green door?" "No, I came through a book." Letitia jumped. "A book!" she repeated feebly.
He was just touching up the final proposition, when his granddaughter, Letty, once before referred to, came into the room with her smiling face and lively movement. Miss Letty or Letitia Forrester was a city-bred girl of some fifteen or sixteen years old, who was passing the summer with her grandfather for the sake of country air and quiet.
"Candace can handle a musket and so can little Phyllis at a pinch," said the elder Letitia thoughtfully, "but I for one am thinking that your Injuns are catamounts, Josephus Peabody." "They are Injuns," said the boy stoutly, peering out into the gloom. They were in perfect darkness, for it was a cloudy night, and not a ray came from the house-door.
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