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Behind his thought of his hostess and his denial to himself that the presence under the same roof of Berenice was the true source of his happiness, lay the consciousness that the latter regarded him as her preserver. He resolutely thrust the thought down deep into his heart, but he could not forget it. Before he was ready to leave his chamber Mehitabel brought him a telegram from Mrs.
"On the contrary, it is I who am not good enough for the quarters." Mehitabel went on with her work of arranging the curtains and putting the room to rights as she answered: "Well, I dare say you ain't; but what special thing've you done?" "Special thing?" Maurice repeated, somewhat confused. "Oh, I see. The fact is, I don't think I've any right to impose on the hospitality of Mrs. Morison."
Here, jump up, Peter, Susan, Mehitabel, or whatever your names are, and let me see how you look!" As jovial Mr. Bryant had been talking, he had lifted the children from the car. He paid little attention to them individually, seeming to think they were mere infants. Mrs. Bryant was chatting away at the same time. "Is this Marjorie?" she said. "My, what a big girl!
The girls sprang out of bed, and throwing on their kimonas, ran and peeped out of the window, from behind the curtains. Sure enough, Cousin Jack was standing down on the lawn, and when he saw the smiling faces, he began to chant a song to them: "Susannah and Mehitabel, come out and play!
Reed took off her spectacles. "I want to know!" she exclaimed. "The durned fool! Well, Appleton Brice didn't have the family brains, ands he was kind of soft-hearted. I've heard Mehitabel Dale say that." She paused to reflect. "So they're coming here?" she added. "I wonder why." Miss Crane's triumph was not over.
"She seems willing to teach you," Wynne replied, and then, with a boyish doubt if she might not take offense, he added, "which of course is very kind of her." Mehitabel chuckled in high good-humor. "Kind it is and unappreciated it is; and little is the credit he does to his training. Men are all alike; if they owned half they owe to women they'd be too ashamed to show their heads in daylight."
Miss Mehitabel was indeed a beautiful woman, and she took a very deep and possibly maternal interest in callow youth. She invited confidence and managed in many ways to make a strong appeal to youthful affections, but I don't think she was always careful to draw the line nicely between maternal love and that other which is neither maternal, fraternal, paternal, nor even filial.
"Yes," said Marjorie, "and we could have sold more if we had had them." "Then there's nothing left for me to buy from you, and I really need a doll." "I'll make you one before I go home, Cousin Jack," said Marjorie; "and then you can keep it to remember me by." "All right, Mehitabel; good for you! I'll play with it every day, and when I go to see my little friends I'll take it with me.
If I keep on my feet, I can't find anything big!" exclaimed Midget. "Where could it be hidden?" "That's for you to find out!" returned King. "I'll give you a hint," said Cousin Jack. "Turn, Mehitabel, turn." Marjorie turned slowly round and round, but that didn't help her any.
"Jocose as ever, Mehitabel," observed the doctor, going to work at once with swift and delicate precision. "You've a nasty cut here, Mr. Wynne; but you're lucky to get off with nothing worse. It's a good deal to come through such an accident without a permanent injury." "That's true," Maurice responded cheerfully. "I dreamed in the night that I was all in bits." "Plenty of poor fellows were.
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