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Fire!" cried Jennie Stone, who, when awakened suddenly, always remembered the dormitory fire at Briarwood Hall. "You little pest! I'll larrup ye good! I'll give ye your nevergitovers!" sputtered the hotel housekeeper. But the affrighted Bella wriggled away from her aunt's bony grasp.
She led the way up the main flight of stairs as she talked. "This here gal will give me the nevergitovers, I know! She's my own sister's child that married a good-for-nothing and is jest like her father." "Bella! You Bella! Turn on the light in these rooms. Is the pitchers filled? And the beds turned down? If I find a speck of dust on this furniture I'll nigh 'bout have the nevergitovers!
But he ain't never caught none yet. "On that occasion, howsomever, he was sure he'd got a whole gang of 'em, and he waked up the whole hotel trying to find out what was going on. I charged Parraday ha'f a dollar for burning extry 'lectricity, and he got so mad he ain't stopped at the hotel since. "He'd give one the nevergitovers, that man would!" she concluded.
"If it ain't Miss Fielding! How-do, Miss Fielding? Ain't it enough to give one their nevergitovers to see you here?" "And how do you suppose I feel to find you here at Beach Plum Point," demanded Ruth, "when we all thought you were so nicely fixed with Mr. and Mrs. Perkins? And Mrs. Holmes wrote to me only the other day that you seemed contented."
I am glad to meet you, my dear. Who are you looking for?" "I want to see my pa, of course. I guess you know who he is?" "I am not sure that I do, my dear." "You don't Say! who are you?" demanded Bella, with some sharpness. "I am only the manager of the company. Who is your father, child?" "Well, of all the Wouldn't that give you your nevergitovers!" exclaimed Bella, in broad amazement. "Say!
"If you had asked us we would have let you try on the things, I am sure." "Aunt Suse would near 'bout give me my nevergitovers and she will yet!" "No she won't," Ruth reassured her. "Don't be afraid of your aunt any longer." "That is what I tell her," Tom said warmly. "Say! You won't put me in no home, will you?" asked Bella, with sudden anxiety. "A 'home'?" repeated Ruth, puzzled.
She said I was worth my keep. But Aunt Suse says I don't earn my salt here." "I am sure you do your best, Bella," Ruth observed. "No, I don't. Nor you wouldn't if you worked for Aunt Suse. She says I'll give her her nevergitovers an' I hope I do!" with which final observation she ran to unlace Aunt Kate's shoes. "Poor little thing," said Ruth to Helen. "She is worse off than an orphan.
"You start anything like that taking that young one away from her lawful guardeen an' I'll get Elnathan Spear after you in a hurry, now I tell ye. I'll give you your nevergitovers!" "If Nate Spear comes to my house, I'll ask him to pay me for that corn he bought off'n me as long ago as last fall," chuckled the farmer.
The two young men planned swiftly how to rescue the sobbing child. But when Tom first spoke to Bella, proposing to help her down, she looked over the edge of the roof at him and shook her head. "No! I ain't coming down," she announced emphatically. "Aunt Suse will near about skin me alive." "She shall not touch you," Tom promised. "She'll give me my nevergitovers, just as she says.
"When you ladies want any help, you call for Bella," announced Miss Susan Timmins. "And if she don't come running, you let me know, and I'll give her her nevergitovers, now I tell ye!" "No wonder this hotel is called 'Drovers' Tavern," said Jennie Stone. "That woman certainly is a driver a slave driver." Ruth, meanwhile, was trying to make a friend of Bella.
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