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We saw her at the hospital, Helene and I. She sent for us about something. Oh, it was awful! Not a thing about her that you'd know except just her great solemn eyes mooning out at you through a gob of white cotton, and her red mouth lipping sort of twitchy at the edge of a bandage. Oh it was awful! But Zillah didn't seem to care so much.
Yocomb let the woman who assisted her go away for the night. Had she been here she might have been another burden." Even though I had but a moment or two in the room, I saw that the doctor was anxious about little Zillah. As Miss Warren waited on me I said earnestly, "What a godsend you are!"
You manage in everything to give me a double pleasure, she said, taking the letter from his hand and tearing it open. "'From Zillah, she said, glancing down the page. "I saw James start. He caught me looking at him, and quieted himself at once; but I noted his agitation plainly. "The General was busy wheeling an easy chair near the sofa, and did not catch his wife's remark.
"'No, I will not tell him, she said kindly, 'for I think he would send you home at once if he knew how perverse you have been. You ought to remember that he never will forgive disrespect to his wife. "I was looking at Zillah. She half covered her face with the bed clothes, and her form writhed under them as if in pain.
Yocomb; "she has become a great comfort and joy to me;" and his wife smiled softly and tenderly. "Adah is so good to me," cried Zillah, "that if Emily hadn't come I wouldn't have half enjoyed the day." "What does thee think of that view of the occasion, Richard?" asked Mr. Yocomb. "Zillah and I always agreed well together," I said; "but I wish Adah knew how much we miss her."
She has never quite met his approbation I know, and the least thing would set him against her. "'Hush, she is listening, I said. "Mrs. Harrington turned and saw that Zillah was looking at her with a strange expression. Something like a mocking smile parted her full lips. "'You must believe me, Zillah. It was in spite of the General's wish to leave you behind, that I brought you here.
Zillah was heart-broken, and Reuben clung to her in a way that surprised me. He has been very remorseful that he treated her badly at one time. Adah and I were mopping our eyes, and father kept blowing his nose like a trumpet.
She blushed vividly at my abrupt question, and did not answer for a moment. Then she began hesitatingly: "From what mother says, it's time I changed a little." "I think Zillah likes you now as she does Miss Warren." "No, she likes Emily Warren best so does every one." "You are mistaken. Zillah could not have looked at Miss Warren differently from the way in which she just looked at you.
Half an hour later, when the dead man had been carried to his room, and the shop and house had been closed, Melky Rubinstein, who had come in while the police were still there, and had remained when they had gone, stood talking to Zillah in the upstairs sitting-room. Melky was unusually grave: Zillah had already gathered that the police had some suspicion about Lauriston.
Parminter, whose accents became more mellifluous than ever as he addressed her; Mr. Parminter, indeed, confronting Zillah might have been taken for a kindly benevolent gentleman whose sole object was to administer condolence and comfort. Few people in court, however, failed to see the meaning of the questions which he began to put in the suavest and softest of tones.
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