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She had already told the girls that Esther Bodn lived on McVane Street, in near neighborhood to a lot of rum-shops and foreigners, and had then "made fun," in the same rattling way that she had used with Laura, airing all her little suspicions and suggestions about the name of Bodn, in the half-frolic fashion that always had such effect upon the listeners.
Nobody else here lives on McVane Street, and we mother and I wouldn't live there if we could afford to live where we liked; but we came here strangers, and this was much the most comfortable place we could find for what we could pay. I know it's in a disagreeable part of the city; but it isn't bad, it isn't low, where we are, it's only run down and shabby.
Yes, and you will give me your address, that I may hasten to pay my respects to her;" and Monsieur whipped out a little note-book and wrote down, probably with greater satisfaction than it had ever been written before, "McVane Street."
I've always been rather shabby, but this spring it's worse, because we've lost some money, not much, but it was a good deal to us, and I couldn't have anything new; and and there's another thing one morning I overheard one of the girls say to Kitty Grant, 'McVane Street, that is enough! They must have been talking about me and where I live.
But Jack said no more on that occasion, nor when his mother, the next day at luncheon, asked Laura what time Miss Bodn expected her, did the young gentleman make any remark. He had evidently forgotten the matter altogether; and Laura, without further anxiety, set out upon her little journey to McVane Street.
"It is one of the girls at Miss Milwood's school, Esther Bodn." "How does a girl who lives on McVane Street come to go to Miss Milwood's school?" "She assists Miss Milwood." And Laura told what she knew of Esther's assistance in the way of the French and German.
"Take Miss Aline first!" commanded Patsy; "think of the pious Æneas you used to preach to me about." And she got herself carried ashore by the hirsute giant McVane. "'Seniores priores' would have been a better quotation," said the Scholar, as he took up Miss Aline; "take hold of the lapels of my coat, Miss Aline your arms not so close about my neck, if you please!"
An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky, David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, had hummed softly to himself, and had thanked God that he was alive. He had blessed McVane, superintendent of "N" Division at Athabasca Landing, for detailing him to the mission on which he was bent.
"You may well say 'for pity's sake;" and then Laura burst forth and repeated, word for word, the conversation that had transpired between Esther and herself, concluding with, "And you you, Kitty, are to blame for this, for it is you who have prejudiced the girls against Esther with your talk about McVane Street and the foreigners in that neighborhood."
He said it was such an anxious, hand-to-mouth life, if one didn't make a quick success of it; and he knew, for he hadn't made a success any more than my father had, and and this is why we came here, and are here now on McVane Street, though my mother didn't want to come. But I wanted to come from the first.
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