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Mother Rheid and Hollis. They are coming by the road; of course the field is blocked with snow. Now your anxious heart shall laugh at itself. I'll put on plates for two more. Is there chocolate enough? And it won't seem so much like playing house." While Marjorie put on the extra plates and cut a few more slices of sponge cake, Linnet went to the front door, and stood waiting for them.
Hollis, bring some water." "Oh, no, no," shivered Marjorie, "don't touch me. What shall I say to his mother? His mother hasn't any one else to care for her. Where is he? Won't somebody tell me all about it?" "Oh, dear; I can't," sobbed Mrs. Rheid. Hollis drew her into a chair and seated himself beside her, keeping her cold hand in his. "I will tell you, Marjorie."
"I wouldn't mind having a little girl like you," he said, reining in the horses at the turn of the road; "come over and see marm some day." "Thank you," Marjorie said, rising. Giving the reins to Hollis, Captain Rheid climbed out of the wagon that he might lift the child out himself. "Jump," he commanded, placing her hands on his shoulders. Marjorie jumped with another "thank you."
Marjorie thought to herself that she would. But Marjorie's mother did not repeat all the conversation; she did not say that she had followed her visitor to the gate and after glancing around to be sure that Marjorie was not near had lowered her voice and said: "But I do think it is a shame, Mis' Rheid, for your Hollis to treat my Marjorie so!
A long illness followed; it was Christmas before she crossed the chamber, and in April Captain Rheid brought her downstairs in his arms. His wife said he loved Linnet as he would have loved an own daughter. His heart was more broken than hers. "Poor father," she would say, stroking his grizzly beard with her thin fingers; "poor father."
I want you to taste Linnet's cream biscuit, too. She made them on purpose for you. There's father, now, coming with African John, and there is Will Rheid coming across lots. Well, I'm glad Linnet did make the biscuits."
How many Bible verses could I repeat? Suppose I began with A and repeated all I could think of, and then went on to B. 'Ask, and ye shall receive. How I did ask God to let me out in some way, to bring somebody to help me? To send somebody. Would not Captain Rheid come back again? Would not Morris change his mind and come home to dinner? or at night? And would Mr.
Hollis laughed; he thought he was already grown up, and he did admire "city girls" with their pretty finished manners and little ready speeches. Marjorie wished Hollis would begin to talk about something pleasant; there were two miles further to ride, and would Captain Rheid talk all the way? If she could only have an errand somewhere and make an excuse to get out!
I wish she could talk to him before she goes away, because he is not a Christian. But he is so good and thoughtful that he will think now more than he ever did before. Miss Prudence stays all the time. Helen notices when she is not there and Mrs. Rheid says she can rest while Miss Prudence is in the room.
Rheid, "but boys don't like to stay here. Father says I spoil them." "Our 'boy, Morris Kemlo, don't you think it's a pretty name? It's real funny, but he and I are twins, we were born on the same day, we were both fourteen this summer. He is taller than I am, of course, with light hair, blue eyes, and a perfect gentleman, mother says. He is behind in his studies, but Mr.
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