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Irving Stanley paused here, for certain doubts arose in his mind, touching the doctor's willingness to be troubled with strangers. "Oh, I'd rather go on alone," Adah exclaimed, as she guessed what he had intended saying. "It's quite as well, I reckon," was Mr. Stanley's reply, and taking Willie in his arms, he conducted Adah to the nearest hotel.
It was a great trial to Adah to face the crowd they found assembled at the depot, but Irving, Hugh, and Alice all helped to screen her from observation, and almost before she was aware of it she found herself safe in the carriage which effectually hid her from view.
Aunt Eunice said, and then in a low tone, as if afraid the walls might hear, Hugh told the whole story of Adah.
Ellsworth had conquered any pride she might at first have felt any reluctance to her brother's marrying her governess, and now like him was anxious to have it settled. But Adah gave him no chance that day, and late in the afternoon he rode back to his regiment, wondering at the change in Miss Gordon, and why her face was so deadly white, and her voice so husky, as she bade him good-by. Poor Adah!
The fire burned brightly in Anna's room when Adah returned from church, and Anna herself was waiting for her, welcoming her back with a smile which went far toward removing the pain still heavy at her heart. Anna saw something was the matter, but it was her sisters who enlightened her as together they ate their Sunday dinner in the little breakfast room where Anna joined them.
Adah's sleep was sweet that night in her little room at Terrace Hill sweet, not because she knew whose home it was, nor yet because only the previous night he had tossed wearily upon the self-same pillow where she was resting so quietly, but because of a heart at peace with God, a feeling that she had at last found a haven of shelter for herself and her child, a home with Anna Richards, whose low breathings could be distinctly heard, and who once as the night wore on moaned so loudly in her sleep that it awakened Adah, and brought her to the bedside.
In answer to Adah's solicitation a long letter had come from Maria, bearing the blissful promise that a carefully made plan of Maria's house of St. Maria felt kindly toward us, and her sympathies had been awakened to their very depths by a tender souvenir Adah had sent her a leaf plucked from one of the lilac bushes on the old Schmittheimer place.
"Your first name is Maria," she said, taking out her pencil to write it down. Adah could not tell a lie, and she replied unhesitatingly: "No, ma'am; my name is Adah Maria, but I prefer being called Maria." Mrs.
"We were in the parlor, and Miss Warren was singing. Your mother spoke would that I might hear her again! it's all tolerably clear up to that time, and then everything is confused." "Adah, how's this?" said Mrs. Yocomb reproachfully. "Thee was not to let Richard Morton talk." "I only am to blame, Mrs. Yocomb: I would talk.
Ellsworth nodded, wrote down "Adah Maria Gordon," but in the letter sent that day to Augusta, merely spoke of her governess in prospect as a Miss Gordon, who had been at the same school with Augusta, asking if she remembered her.
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