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Miss Maddox presided and introduced the speakers Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Suffrage Association; the Rev. John Roach Straton, the Rev. Peter Ainslie, Attorney John Grill, Dr. Flora Pollack, Mrs. Mary Badders Holton, Mrs. Funck, the Rev. Olympia Brown of Wisconsin, Dr. J. William Funck and Miss Belle Kearney of Mississippi.
Hardly had he finished reading this when a letter was brought to him which had been found on the porch of the old Ordinary. It was addressed to "MISS MOLLIE AINSLIE, Nigger Teacher at Red Wing," but as it was indorsed "K.K.K." Eliab felt no compunctions in opening it in her absence.
Hesden followed him, presently, and asked where Miss Ainslie was. "I am directed," said Pardee, "not to disclose her residence, but will at any time forward any communication you may desire to make." The next day Mr. Pardee received a note from Mrs. Le Moyne, requesting him to come to Mulberry Hill at his earliest convenience. Being at the time disengaged, he returned with the messenger.
Ruth invited Carl to supper, and made them both sit still while she prepared the simple meal, which, as he said, was "astonishingly good." He was quite himself again, but Miss Ainslie, though trying to assume her old manner, had undergone a great change.
An apology was on her lips, but only her flushed cheeks betrayed any emotion. Miss Ainslie's face was pale, and there was unmistakable resentment in her eyes. "I must go," Ruth said, after an awkward silence, and in an instant Miss Ainslie was herself again. "No-you mustn't go, deary. You haven't seen my garden yet. I have planted all the seeds and some of them are coming up.
"I shouldn't stay any longer," murmured Ruth, following her, "I've been here so long now." "'T isn't long," contradicted Miss Ainslie, sweetly, "it's been only a very few minutes." Every moment, the house and its owner took on new beauty and charm.
The letter was full of arrows designed to pierce her breast; but Mollie Ainslie did not feel one of them. After what she had suffered, no ungenerous flings from such a source could cause her any pain.
"Agnes Ainslie!" repeated Rachel, with parched lips and trembling voice, "the daughter of Mr. John Ainslie, my father's agent, to whom I am even now going, by Mr. Grierson's command, to request him to call to morrow for the purpose of preparing the settlement!" "A strange perplexity of events," said Paul.
It was no wonder that she was jealous of the Yankee school-marm. Love is keen-eyed, and she really loved her cousin. She had become satisfied, during her stay at the Hill, that he was deeply attached to Mollie Ainslie, and knew him too well to hope that he would change; and such a conviction was, of course, not pleasant to her vanity.
Was it love at first sight, or did he believe that his sweetheart was dead? Then Carl was born and the mother died. Twelve years afterward, he followed her broken hearted. Carl had told her that his father could not bear the smell of lavender nor the sight of any shade of purple and Miss Ainslie always wore lavender and lived in the scent of it had he come to shrink from it through remorse?
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