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One now glimmered upon the supper-table and another, unlighted, waited elsewhere for just such an emergency but an emergency so long delayed that Alfy had never expected it to arrive. She had learned to polish the antique stick to a dazzling brilliancy, its snuffers and extinguisher as well, "in case we should have an evening call," being the weekly remark that accompanied the polishing.
In the heart of each was an earnest petition for "poor Jim," Dolly's ending with the words: "And let me see his face the first thing in the morning." But Alfy reproved this. "We haven't any right to set times for things to be done and prayers to be answered, Dolly Doodles, and don't say no more.
Get ready immediately," said Madam, rising from table, and measuring out the supper portion of Alfaretta, the one small servant of a house which had once sheltered many. Then he also rose, but so languidly that "Alfy" stared, and, glancing toward his still full plate, inquired: "You sick?" "No, I ain't. I'm m-m-mad!" "At me?" "N-no. Y-y-yes. You're another of 'em. She's a g-g-girl.
"Alfaretta!" cried Madam Sturtevant, "what does this mean?" Something of the girl's panic had seized her, also, though she tried to hide her own agitation by sternness. "My suz, Alfy Brown! What ails ye? You nigh knocked me down, slammin' the door right in my face, that way!" exclaimed Susanna, who had, fortunately, stepped within before this strange thing had happened.
Alfy was the first of the girls he had interviewed, though he had gratefully recognized Helena's compassion and Dorothy's distress for himself. Molly he guessed he wouldn't question Molly. That young person had a flippant tongue and she was always inclined to "call a spade a spade." He couldn't imagine her calling a coward a hero and his own heart told him he had not been that.
Until, from the corner of his eye, he saw Alfy poking into a little wall-cupboard that was his own property and used to shelter his dearest treasures. "No, no, Missee Alfaletta! No, no. Wun Sing's chalm no wolkee if lill gels meddle!"
This West Point ambition of her son's was a sore subject with her, though his great desire for a military life had never been hidden from her. "If I can pass the physical exam., and the book one either," he added, with a grimace. "Well, you'll have to know a power more 'n you do now, if you get into that place," said truthful Alfy.
'I do want to be good, sighed Harold. 'If I'd only been confirmed; but 'twas all along of them merries last summer! 'And I was such a plague to you I drove you out, said Alfred. 'No, no, I was a brute to you! Oh! Alfy, Alfy, if I could only get back the time!
Four girls, even if together all day long, find much to chatter about at night, and this had been a day of "happenings" indeed. Dolly and Alfy came across to sit on Helena's bed and watch her dainty, slow preparations for retiring. Molly was already perched in the middle of her own white bed, hugging her knees and proclaiming for the twentieth time, at least: "Oh! I am such a thankful girl!
Yet Herbert, as the best oarsman there and also as the loyal friend of the missing lad, assumed the place Alfy would not take. Without a word he did what Dorothy desired. He slipped the painter from its post, helped the girl to take her seat in the little "Dorothy," even smiling as he observed that it had been named for her, and quietly pushed out from shore.
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