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Yet she remembered what Aunt Alvirah had said, and refrained from handing it back to him. She determined, however, if she could, to never touch the five gold pieces, and some time, when she was self-supporting, she would hand the very same coins back to him! This was in her thought as she moved away.
The little girl stopped and looked up at her in surprise. "Why, don't you know about it?" she cried. "Know about what, child?" "Didn't you know I had come here to live with you?" "Bless us and save us!" ejaculated Aunt Alvirah. "How did that happen?" "Didn't my uncle tell you?" cried Ruth, much more surprised than the old lady. "Who's your uncle, child?" "Why, Mr. Potter Uncle Jabez."
I hate to see it, but ye can't fool Natur' no, sir! Natur' says to these young things: 'Advance! an' they've jest got to march, I reckon," and Aunt Alvirah sighed, too. Then her little, bird-like eyes twinkled suddenly and she chuckled. "Jest the same," she added, in a whisper, "Ruth got out all her doll-babies the other day and played with 'em jest like she was ten years old."
"But he should make good use of his time. And your father needs him. He ought to be idle now, not Tom." "Grandmother Grunt!" laughed Helen. "You're twice as old as Aunt Alvirah right now." "After what we have been through after what the world has been through for five years we all ought to be at work," said Ruth rather severely. "And Tom is no exception."
Wonota had to amuse herself; but that did not seem hard for the Indian girl to do. She was naturally of a very quiet disposition. She sat by Aunt Alvirah for hours doing beadwork while the old woman darned or knitted. "You wouldn't ever suspect she was a Red Indian unless you looked at her," Aunt Alvirah confessed to the rest of the family. "She's a very nice girl."
Aunt Alvirah wanted to come to the closing exercises of the school; but to expect Uncle Jabez to leave the mill in business hours for any such thing as that was altogether ridiculous to contemplate. Uncle Jabez had, however, paid some small attention to Ruth in her new dress. Before she started for school that last day she went to the mill door and showed herself to the miller.
She had lost her fear of the automobile and had even begun to hint to the miller that she wished he would buy a small car. "Land o' Goshen!" grumbled Uncle Jabez, "what next? I s'pose you'd want to learn to run the dratted thing, Alvirah Boggs?" "Well, Jabez Potter, I don't see why not?" she had confessed. "Other women learns." "Huh!
Hooley, the director, and the company selected for the making of Ruth's new picture to the Thousand Islands. Meanwhile Ruth herself had many preparations to make and she could not be all the time with her visitor. As in that past time when she had visited the Red Mill, Wonota was usually content to sit with Aunt Alvirah and make beadwork while the old woman knitted.
She had a feeling that he did not like the Camerons and might oppose her friendliness with them. But he was not at hand now to interfere with her innocent pleasures. She went in and asked Aunt Alvirah if she could take the ride. "Why not, child? You've been the very best helpmate ever an old woman had Oh, my back and oh, my bones! Run along and have your fun, deary.
First she was alarmed, for she confessed to a fear of automobiles. But when she felt the huge machine which carried them so swiftly over the roads running so smoothly, Aunt Alvirah became a convert to the new method of locomotion. At the hotel where they halted for the night, there were more wonders. Aunt Alvirah's knowledge of modern conveniences was from reading only.
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