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Only to their thoughts at first; but presently Cousin Delight said, in a quiet tone, to Leslie, "That doesn't account for the steps, does it?" "I am glad it can't," said Leslie. Dakie Thayne turned a look toward Leslie, as if he would gladly know of what she spoke, a look in which a kind of gentle reverence was strangely mingled with the open friendliness.
Knowing, morally, some things that I have not had opportunity to investigate in detail, and cannot therefore set down as verities, I am privately convinced that this little business agency on the part of Dakie Thayne, was in some proportion at least, a piece of a horse-shoe! If you have not happened to read "Real Folks," you will not know what that means.
I'm glad it's no worse," she answered, in her pleasant, smiling way. Dakie Thayne had a great liking for Mrs. Linceford, but he adored Leslie Goldthwaite. "I'd like to show them to you, if you'd care," he said. "I've got some splendid ones. One great Turnus, that I brought with me in the chrysalis, that hatched out while I was at Jefferson.
I think Mother completely lost touch with Great-aunt Emma. It is easy, you know, when one belongs to a different generation and has never seen one's aunt." "Then you don't know whether your Great-aunt Emma had children?" asked Mrs. Thayne, twisting the odd chain reflectively between her fingers. "Oh, yes," said Estelle. "I do happen to know that. There were two, a girl and a boy.
Hastily improvising a flag, he responded. Twenty minutes later, Mrs. Thayne, still nervously sewing, heard Mr. Fisher run up the steps and Estelle hurry to the door. A few brief seconds sufficed to give the explanation Roger had so painstakingly signaled. "I didn't stop to rescue him, Mrs. Thayne," explained Mr.
"He overdid yesterday," said Mrs. Thayne in reply to her anxious questioning. "I can't discover exactly what happened, but he and Roger were out together and Win walked too far. That's all he will admit. No, he isn't as badly off as sometimes, and says he only needs a rest. Come up in his room, Fran, to tell your adventures."
She would only move her to acquiescence yet a little longer in what her friends offered and urged. She represented to her that they must at least wait to hear from Mr. Thayne; there might be something coming from the West; and it would be cruel to hurry her mother into a life which could not but afflict her, until an absolute necessity should be upon them.
This morning instead of sending a servant with my breakfast, she brought it herself, and when she was arranging things, I remembered whom it is she looks like. It is your friend, Mrs. Aldrich." "Win, you're right," said Mrs. Thayne suddenly. "Estelle is like Carrie Aldrich, and not in looks alone, but in manner. Now how can that possibly be?
Dakie Thayne was making his way, with eyes alight and excited, down a side passage to his post. Then the two actors hurried once more into position; the stage was cleared by a whispered peremptory order; the bell rung once, the tent trembling with some one whisking further out of sight behind it, twice, and the curtain rose upon "Consolation."
By using a little imagination the girls agreed that they could detect the spire of the cathedral of Coutances easily visible in clear weather. "In the French revolution the governor of Jersey signalled to the army of the Vendee by means of a flagpole held in place by chains," said Mrs. Thayne. "Yes," said their small guide. "The chains are still on the wall but the pole is new.
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