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Updated: May 16, 2025
And you've come right to your Aunt Alviry for comfort. And you've come to the right place, my pretty girl, for I've got tons of comfort for ye." She found a chair and lowered herself into it, not without the formula which Ruth had heard before, of "Oh, my back and oh, my bones!" Ruth dropped on her knees before her, hid her face in the old lady's lap, and had her cry out.
"Do you think he is a bad boy that he has taken the wallet " "Now, now!" exclaimed Mr. Cameron, smiling at her again. "Don't jump at conclusions, Mistress Ruth Fielding. I have no suspicion regarding the lad How is the patient, Aunt Alviry?" he added, quickly, as the little old woman came hobbling out of the bedroom where the strange boy lay.
I have been out once behind Dr. Davison's red and white mare, to see Aunt Alviry. We just gabbled about you all the time. Your pullets are laying. Tell Helen 'Hullo! for me. I expect to see you soon, though that is, if arrangements can be made to billet me with somebody who doesn't mind having a Goody Two-Sticks around. "Now, good-bye, Ruthie, "From your fidgetty friend, "MERCY CURTIS."
I wish you were here to try it, and I could be out to the Red Mill." Then she paid more softly: "I'd like to see that mill and the river and all the things you tell about." "You wait!" cried Ruth. "I'll ask Uncle Jabez and Aunt Alviry. Maybe we can fix it so you could come out and see me. Wouldn't that be fine?" "Yah!" snarled the cripple again. "I'll never get that far away from this old chair."
He looked down for a moment at her hands as though he would fling off her hold. But he thought better of it, and waited fully a minute before he spoke. "You know your Aunt Alviry needs ye," he said. "If you kin fix it with her, why I don't see as I need object." "Will it be too much trouble for you to get my trunk, Uncle, so that I can begin going to school next week?" Ruth asked.
"Don't try, then," he growled, but without looking at her. "I reckon you can thank Alviry Boggs as much as anybody. She says I owed it to you." "Oh, Uncle " "There, there! I don't wanter hear no more about it," declared the miller.
But Ruth, coming now to consider her situation more dispassionately, simply wrote a loving letter in reply to Helen's, entrusting it to the post, and went on upon her usual way, helping Aunt Alviry, going to school, and studying harder than ever. But school and its routine took up a deal of the girl's thought. Her studies confined her more and more as the end of the term approached.
"Not so near related as some," was all he said in reply to this. After a moment, he added: "You can go along to the house yonder. Aunt Alviry will show you what to do." Ruth could not have said another word just then without breaking down and weeping, so she only nodded and turned to walk up a path toward the house door. "One thing," urged the old man, before she had gone far.
"What's this I hear about a vagabond boy in my bed, Aunt Alviry?" he demanded, when he came in. "The poor child!" said the old woman. "Oh, my back, and oh, my bones! Come in and see him, Jabez," she urged, hobbling toward the passage. "No. Who is he? What is he here for? That Cameron talks so fast I never can get the rights of what he's saying till afterward.
"But if it were a sunstroke look here, I'll go with you myself. I am a doctor." "Kind of thought you might be," he responded genially. "Thinking of taking on old Doc. Simmonds's practice?" "I don't know. But if your wife " The rustic shook his head. "No. You wouldn't do for Alviry. She said to get Doc. Parker, and a sunstroke ain't going to change her none.
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