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Updated: June 12, 2025
Stately Helena smiled at the free masonry of the westerner and glanced at Mrs. Ford, in inquiry: "Yes, dear, go with her. I shan't be lonely, with Alfaretta left, flying in and out busily. I declare, those kitchen odors are savory! I hope the wanderers will soon be here, that this new meal won't be kept till spoiled, as Mrs. Roderick complained of the other."
I don't see what there's to be so tickled over, for my part! Jim Barlow's actin' like a regular simpleton. And he's mean, too. He's meaner 'n pussley, makin' everybody such a lot of trouble. Folks riding night and day to hunt for him some out scourin' round this very minute and him just stayin' away 'cause 'cause " "'Cause what, Alfaretta Babcock?" demanded Molly sternly.
The fresh excitement incident to this arrival had scarcely died, when Madam Sturtevant appeared, with her small handmaid in train. The lady had been somewhat doubtful about accepting the invitation for herself, having been informed by her grandson that, outside The Maples' family, she was the only grown-up so favored except the schoolmaster; and she was more than doubtful for Alfaretta.
It makes me feel terrible queer!" wailed Alfaretta. "But Jim can't Jim can't be drowned! He can't!" "Yes he can, too. Shut up. Help me untie that rope. Get in. Take an oar. Row row, I tell you," snapped Dorothy, distraught. "I can't. I dassent! I never touched to row an oar in my life. Not in my whole life long, and I I shan't do it now!" retorted the mountaineer with equal crispness.
He did not, but poor Helen wandered forlornly about the darkened house, an indefinable dread chasing away the relief which had come when her husband spoke of spiritual trouble; she was glad, for the mere humanness of it, to hear Thaddeus and Alfaretta talking in the kitchen. The next day, and the next, dragged slowly by.
Helen left Alfaretta to reflect upon the hymn, and went back to the study; but the door was shut, and she heard the scratching of her husband's pen. She turned away, for she had lived in a minister's household, and had been brought up to know that nothing must disturb a man who was writing a sermon. But John had hurriedly opened the door.
What's the matter with the hen, anyway?" Having put this question, Alfaretta walked to the sink and turned the spigot over her own hand, which suddenly felt soiled by contact with the Chinaman's shoulder. Then she remarked: "We're all hungry. Tell us where we can find something to eat."
None whatever would have been there save for the generosity of distant relatives who regularly sent a small cheque to the Madam, as well as a box of clothing for the grandson; nor did they even dream that upon that cheque and the neighborly kindness of Eunice Maitland the household at the mansion existed. Fortunately, for the present, Alfaretta demanded nothing in the matter of wages.
The lady flushed and drew. Her lot was in the last and smallest buckboard which would carry but two more beside the driver; and it fell out that her companions would be Alfaretta and Monty Stark. The driver was known as Silent Pete, and it certainly was an odd combination which had resulted from the first "drawing."
Alfaretta had enumerated the various disasters which had befallen Montgomery upon finger after finger, and with such perfect gravity that the anxious grandmother was amused, in spite of her fear, and felt herself greatly cheered. With a kindly smile, she answered: "Yes, Alfy, please do bring it; and, of course, you need not close the door.
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