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I feel that there must be some mistake, or I would have heard of or thought of some of these things before. And yet they sound so reasonable when you come to think them over, that presently I am surprised that I have not felt them before. Ruthie, do you think Eurie and Marion have any interest at all?" "No," said Ruth, positively, "I know Marion hasn't.
"We'll be happy to have you, ma'am," and with a salute, the old soldier marched out the door. "Indade, Miss Ruthie, an' it's proud I am to go wid ye," said Mrs. O'Malligan some hours later, in response to Miss Ruth's request to go over to the Armory with her, "just ye wait till I starts the Angel choild up the steps," and Mrs.
They scurried into Ruth's little room to find her sitting on the side of her cot sipping hot tea which she had made over her alcohol lamp. "Where have you been?" cried Helen. And Jennie chimed in with: "Two whole nights and a day! It is disgraceful! Oh, Ruthie! Are you really wedded?" "I am wedded to my work," replied the girl of the Red Mill quietly. "Dear, dear! How original!" drawled Jennie.
"Never mind, Ruthie; you're prettier than any of them," said a merry, good-natured girl, whose plainness excluded her from any of the envy of rivalry. "Yes! I know I am pretty," said Ruth, sadly, "but I am sorry I have no better gown, for this is very shabby. I am ashamed of it myself, and I can see Mrs Mason is twice as much ashamed. I wish I need not go.
"Ah, Jabez," Aunt Alvirah said, as they watched Ruth get into the Cameron automobile to be whisked away to the station, and so to Briarwood for her second half, "that's where our endurin' comfort an' hope is centered for our old age. We've only got Ruthie." "She's a mighty expensive piece of property," snarled the old man. "Ye don't mean it, Jabez, ye don't mean it," she returned, softly.
There were two broad windows with wide seats under them, too. "Isn't it just scrumptious?" cried Helen, hugging Ruth in her delight. "And just think it's our very own! Oh, Ruthie! won't we just have good times here?" Ruth was quite as delighted, if she was not so volubly enthusiastic as Helen. It was a much nicer room, of course, than the girl from the Red Mill had ever had before.
Hadden for Reba. There, mother. It's in your head now! Please turn it over with a nice little think, and tell me you would just as lief, and that you believe perhaps I could!" By this time Ruth was round behind Mrs. Holabird's chair, with her two hands laid against her cheeks. Mrs. Holabird leaned her face down upon one of the hands, holding it so, caressingly. "I am sure you could, Ruthie.
I b'lieve thet 'twas me, myself, thet run the old tub on the rock." "Aside from the flour, Jabez," said the storekeeper, "'tain't much of a loss. But you an' Ruthie might ha' both been drowned." "I would, if it hadn't been for her," declared the miller, with more enthusiasm than he usually showed. "She held my head up when I was knocked out kinder. Ye see this cut in my head?"
And when Ruth and her party left Beach Plum Point camp for home in their automobiles, Bella herself was working in a two-reel comedy that Mr. Hooley was directing. "Well, thank goodness!" sighed Helen, "Ruth has settled affairs for two more of her 'waifs and strays. Now don't, I beg, find anybody else to become interested in during our trip back to the Red Mill, Ruthie."
It was only when she tried to talk of matters too old for her that she made herself ridiculous. She was very quiet and industrious, and had knit several pairs of socks for the soldiers. As soon as Miss Parlin could disentangle herself from her conversation with Ruthie, she left the children to themselves. "Let's keep school," said Prudy. "I'll be teacher, if you want me to."
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