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Updated: June 15, 2025
When Ellen came in, and after a short greeting to Betsey Hardman, went up- stairs, she found Alfred lying back on his pillow, deadly white, the beads of dew standing on his brow, and his breath in gasps. She would have shrieked for her mother, but he held out his hand, and said, in a low hoarse whisper, 'Ellen, is it true? 'What, Alfy dear? What is the matter? 'What she says. 'Who?
When she had gathered an armful of wood, Alfy carried it to the fireplace and lustily blew upon the embers till a little blaze started. Then she heaped the sticks upon this and presently had a roaring flame. At once the room grew cheerful, its bareness furnished, as it were, by this open fire. "Now, dear Lady Gray, please come right inside.
'O Harold! sighed Alfred, 'I don't think I should mind at least not so much if I hadn't been such a bad boy. 'You, Alfy! Who was ever a good boy if you was not? 'Hush! You forget all about when I was up at my Lady's, and all that. Oh! and how bad I behaved at church, and when I was so saucy to Master about the marbles; and so often I've not minded Mother.
"Just think, Alfy Babcock, of owning a real car, going and stopping just as you please, same's riding in a carriage with horses! Even darling Aunt Betty, who's been 'most everywhere and seen 'most everything, in her long life, never travelled 'private coaching' this way before. I hate to think it's over, that I'll have to say good-by to her so soon. Seems if I ought not.
"Unwise, ambitious hen!" were the exclamations which responded; and Molly added: "That isn't all. There's something worse on Helena's mind than the death of a bewitched hen! Out with it, child! After I mean my nerves won't stand any more." "Didn't know you had nerves," laughed Alfy. "What's happened, Helena?" "Wun Sing has disappeared." "W-h-a-t?" "It is true. He has gone, nobody knows where.
Now, you idiot, we'll get in again and you take us where you were bid! and there, it's likely, you'll make the acquaintance of Mr. Daniel Ford in a way you don't like! Get in, Dorothy Alfy! We can't stand foolin' here!" But the cabman closed the door of his vehicle with a bang and calmly folded his arms to wait. Dolly pulled out her little purse. It contained one nickel and two cents.
What makes you ask?" They had come across the grass as far as the end of the Barracks, and still drilling his "awkward squad," the old ranchman wheeled about and ordered: "Halt! About face!" Alfy giggled, but seeing the faces of all the rest, especially Dorothy's, sober and set in imitation of the Captain's, she stopped laughing and applied herself to the business in hand. "Hep, hep, hep March!"
It was a belated household which struggled out of heavy slumber the next day, and as Dorothy lazily yawned and stretched her arms above her head it seemed as if all the exciting events of the night must be part of her dreams. Alfy woke, too, as reluctantly as her mate and just as Helena appeared from her own room, looking a little heavy-eyed but fully dressed.
But, then, Alfy had never before attended a Hallowe'en Corkis, and probably never would again. Still observant, Katharine saw Aunt Eunice's dear face grow more and more thoughtful, yet with a thoughtfulness in no measure sad. Finally, she left Nathan to Mrs. Clackett's care and hastily crossed the room to Madam's side.
'Mother, Mother, Alfred cried in a whisper, so eager that it made him cough, 'you can't never send him to the workhouse? 'I can't bear the thought, Alfy, she said, the tears in her eyes; 'but I don't know what to do. It's not the trouble. That I'd take with all my heart, but it is hard enough to live, and
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