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At that moment a small face peeped over the top of the wall which divided the garden from that of the next house, and a childish voice asked: "Do you want the Mortons?" "Yes. Isn't anybody in?" "They're all gone away to Llandudno, for a month." "All? Isn't anyone here?" "No, the house is locked up."
And he and his daughter, Celia, will come back with us. And we can buy something there at the Mortons' to help feed the hungry children aboard the train." That last appealed to Nan Sherwood, if nothing else did. There was but a single doubt in her mind. "Oh, Bess!" she cried. "Do you think we ought to go? Shouldn't we ask permission?" "Of whom?" demanded Bess, in surprise.
Spencer changed both the Christian and the surname of his protege, in order to elude the search whether of Philip, the Mortons, or the Beauforts, and Sidney passed for his nephew by a younger brother who had died in India. So there, by the calm banks of the placid lake, amidst the fairest landscapes of the Island Garden, the youngest born of Catherine passed his tranquil days.
Duvall read the note with a smile. Grace was always such a thoroughly good comrade. Leaving the hotel, he went to the telegraph office from which the message to Ruth Morton had been delivered that morning. It was on Columbus Avenue, some four blocks from the Mortons' apartment. "Can you tell me where this telegram was sent from?" he asked.
She has lived here since the early fifties, and was a Perkins, one of the eleven Perkins children that grew up in town; and the Perkinses were related by marriage to the Mortons, of whom there are over fifty living adult descendants on the town-site now. So one begins to see why she is called "Aunt Martha" Merryfield.
We Watkinses are going to give her something as a family, and Delia and I have each picked out a special present from us ourselves " "That's the way we're doing," came from the Mortons. " but I think it would be nice to give her something from the whole of us, because if it hadn't been for the Club and the Club baby she wouldn't have come here at all."
"Away from the Mortons altogether!" said Harry. "That would be an awful shame!" "I don't see what good the Mortons have done this last half century," said the Captain. "You don't remember the old squire, Captain," said the innkeeper, "and I don't remember him well. Indeed I was only a little chap when they buried him.
He had thought for a moment of spending the night on the sidewalk in front of the Mortons' apartment, watching the windows facing on the court, but his experience told him that it would be useless. The alarm which Ruth had made, the closing of the windows of her bedroom, the locking of the door, all made it highly improbable that any further attempt would be made to annoy her during the night.
And, indeed, Spencer had taken peculiar pains to deceive the Mortons, whose interposition he feared little less than that of the Beauforts. "Then it can be of no use to apply to him," said Philip, carelessly, not having any recollection of the name of Spencer, and therefore attaching little importance to the mention of him. "Certainly, I should think not. Depend on it, Mr. Beaufort must know."
"She has?" returned Katharine skeptically. "I shouldn't think she would want to." "I could see that it was very painful for her; but I think she and the Mortons, too, would be much more pained now if they knew that a guest was discussing their affairs." Katharine dropped Della's arm and the two girls hardly spoke during the remainder of Katharine's stay.
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