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"Those are the very words he used," interrupted Ruth, while Tom recovered from his confusion and Helen from her enjoyment of her twin's embarrassment. "He says you shall have a square deal." While the young actress ate and Aunt Alvirah heaped her plate, "killing me with kindness!" Hazel Gray declared the young folk chattered.
She thought of all the kind friends she had left in Darrowtown, and her long journey here, and her cold welcome to what she supposed would be her future home. Without Helen, and without Aunt Alvirah, she knew she would have gotten up, put on her clothing, packed her bag, and run away in the rain to some other place. She could not have stood Uncle Jabez alone.
Potter's manner and learned that there was something better there than the harsh surface the miller turned to all the world. Uncle Jabez hoarded money for the pleasure of hoarding it; but he had been generous to Ruth, having put her at one of the best boarding schools in the State. He could be charitable at times, too; Aunt Alvirah could testify to that fact.
She got up in a little while, bathed her face and eyes, and kissed Aunt Alvirah warmly. "You are a dear!" she declared, hugging the little old woman. "Come! I won't cry any more. I'll come down stairs with you, Auntie, and help get dinner." But Ruth could eat none herself.
We'll hev Miss 'Cretia Lock in by the day, and we'll make 'em." "But, dear," said Ruth, wonderingly, "how will we get the goods and the trimmings and pay Miss Lock for her work?" "Don't you fret about that. Jest you wait and see," declared Aunt Alvirah, mysteriously. Ruth knew very well that the old woman had not a penny of her own.
The birds popped out of their hiding-places and began to sing and chirp as though they never could be glad enough for this change in the weather. There was so much to see from the kitchen door at the Red Mill that Ruth did not mind her work that morning. She had learned now to help Aunt Alvirah in many ways.
And mind you don't come to town without turning in at the gate with the green eyes;" and so saying he let the eager mare out and she swiftly carried him away. It was after this Aunt Alvirah seemed so confident that a way would be provided for Ruth to get the frocks that she so sadly needed.
"Oh, what a mean way to put it!" gasped Helen. "I don't care, Miss! You never had your back ache you and your legs go wabbly No person with a bad back and such aches and pains as I have, was ever good-natured!" "Think of Aunt Alvirah," murmured Ruth, gently. "Oh, well she isn't just human!" gasped the lame girl. "She is very human, I think," Ruth returned. "No. She's an angel.
Aunt Alvirah was no person with whom she could discuss this great change in the miller; and when Doctor Davison was hailed by Mr. Potter the next day and stopped at the mill for quite half an hour to confer with him, Ruth was still more amazed. Every other day Ruth was to go to town, if it was fair.
Boggs," urged Helen. "They'll kill him! He's crazy! It's his money the poor, poor man!" It was evident that Aunt Alvirah read the miller's excitement aright. Ruth remembered the cash-box and wondered if it had been left in the mill while her uncle went to Cheslow? However that might be, her attention indeed, the attention of everybody about the mill was held by the reckless actions of Mr. Potter.
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