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Jenkins, "but we kin spank him up good as soon as we git thar, and then he'll understand he's to keep away." "We kin git a good dog to keep track of Iry and the cattle," said the Boarder, and then he paused expectantly to listen to Amarilly's approbation. But she was strangely silent. "It will be a fust class investment," he continued sagely. "Why will it?
There was a short, sharp conflict in Amarilly's conscience before she convinced herself it would not be wrong to allow the impromptu choir to don the surplices of St. Mark's. "They wouldn't spile 'em jest awearin' 'em onct," she argued sharply, for Amarilly always "sassed back" with spirit to her moral accuser. "'Tain't as if they wa'n't agoin' into the wash as soon as they take 'em off.
With a glimmer of mischief dancing in her eyes, the young teacher listened appreciatively but apprehensively as she noted the amazed expression on the faces of the teachers of adjacent classes when Amarilly's treble tones were wafted toward them.
But to Colette the homely little stories were vignettes of another side of life. "Have you been to the rectory yet, Amarilly?" she asked presently, when Amarilly's memories of stage life lagged. "No; Flammy has went fer Mr. St. Mark's things." "Mr. St. Mark's!" Colette laughed delightedly. "I thought you told me that the preacher's name was Mr. St. Marks.
The belligerent locks of the little scrub-girl refused to respond to advances from curling iron or papers, but one of the neighbors whose hair was a second cousin in hue to Amarilly's amber tresses, loaned some frizzes, which were sewed to the brim of the new hat. The problem of hand covering was solved by Mr.
"Why, it's going to be quite an affair," said Colette enthusiastically. "We'll throw an old shoe and some rice after them. And will she be married in white?" Amarilly's face fell. "I am afraid she can't afford a wedding dress. She's got to get a travelling suit and hat and gloves and shoes, and with other things it will take all she has saved.
You should have come earlier," he replied with an air of relief, as he turned to resume the all-absorbing topic with the proprietor. Amarilly's interest in the window display dispelled any disappointment she might have had in regard to Bud's head covering. "Now," said the clerk didactically, "my idea is this. Have a wedding a church wedding.
"Ill be more than glad to let you hev it arter your givin' me this fine dress." "I'll have Mr. Jimmels pay you for it. He can take a dollar out of the fee for the minister. It will serve him right for not bringing all his trappings with him." Amarilly's sense of justice was appeased by this arrangement.
The Jenkins family was immediately summoned in council to discuss Amarilly's invitation to attend divine service at St. Mark's. "You air jest more'n hevin' advantages," said Mrs. Jenkins exultingly. "Fust the matinee, then the Guild, and now St. Mark's is open to you. But you'd orter hev a few fixin's to go to sech a grand place, Amarilly." Amarilly shook her determined little head resolutely.
Promptness was ever Amarilly's chief characteristic, and she arrived long in advance of the ushers. This gave her an opportunity to sample several pews before finally selecting one whose usual occupants, fortunately, were out of the city. The vastness and stillness of the edifice, disturbed now and then by silken rustle and soft-shod foot were bewildering to Amarilly.
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