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I've gone too far, haven't I? You sit down somewhere and rest, and I'll stay with you. The others can go on, if they like." "Guess I'll wait, too." Miss Sterling dropped wearily to the grass. Mrs. Adlerfeld, Miss Lily, Mrs. Albright, and Miss Castlevaine lined themselves beside her. "I don't know what possessed me to come on such a long walk!" fretted Miss Castlevaine.
Yes, there was quite a carload of people getting out ladies, too. "Why, Will Belden!" called out a voice from the party. A tall fellow in a long ulster sprang forward to grasp his hand. "You don't say it's yourself come down to meet us. Here we all are, Johnson, Clemmerding, Albright, Cranston -all the old set. Rainsford, you've heard of my cousin, Will Belden.
You don't s'pose she's gone luny, do you? She was so upset about goin' to that weddin'!" "No, it isn't that!" decided Miss Sterling. "Mrs. Dick is not the kind to go crazy." "Somebody's comin'!" Miss Crilly darted to the closet and shut herself in. Mrs. Albright and Mrs. Adlerfield appeared. "I thought Miss Crilly was here." Mrs. Albright looked about in surprise.
Might not be a bad thing either guess he's all right. 'Most anything 'd be better 'n bein' under Miss Sniffen and her crowd!" "Where did Mrs. Dick live before she came here? Did you know her?" Mrs. Albright inquired. "I knew of her." Miss Crilly answered. "She kep' boarders over Kelly Avenue way. She used to teach school years ago.
"The man said he had to do some wiring in the cellar, make connections, and so on." "Won't it be lovely for you!" cried Mrs. Albright. "For all of us," amended the other. "I want the ladies to feel that it belongs to them as well as to me, and to come and use it whenever they wish." "That is good of you! I'm sure it is needed badly enough. Isn't it nice that Miss Crilly is doing so well?"
Mrs. Randolph caught sight of Miss Twining's face, and it turned her from the distant glory. She told Mrs. Albright afterwards that she looked as if it were given her to see what was not visible to the others a glimpse of heaven itself. Mrs. Bonnyman broke the spell. "Let's go back before it fades," she suggested. And the majority followed her into the firelit living-room.
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"Oh, it's only a team!" was the disappointed contradiction. "I saw the dust and thought they were coming." The buggy whirled up, the driver lifted his hat with a smiling bow and was gone. "Mr. Randolph and Miss Puddicombe!" commented Miss Castlevaine. "Who was he bowing to? Not me!" "I have met him," responded Mrs. Albright. "Oh! Maybe it was you, then. But he was looking at Miss Sterling!"
And when Alice Twining came here and found that Miss Sniffen had been appointed superintendent she was almost a mind to back out; but she hadn't any other place to go, so she stayed, and she said Miss Sniffen had seemed to take delight in being mean to her ever since. Well, it's a tight box that Amelia Sniffen has got herself into this time!" Mrs. Albright sighed. "Please go on!" whispered Polly.
"She ought to have a doctor," Miss Sterling said, with wrinkled forehead. "I wonder if I can be of any use I'll come right up." The combined resources of the two were of no avail. Miss Crilly grew worse, "I shall die I know I shall! just as poor Miss Twining is going to!" wailed the sufferer. "No, you won't!" returned Mrs. Albright. "You haven't any heart trouble."
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