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It was all too certain that Azalea had taken her away somewhere. And it might be all right, it might be that Azalea had merely taken the child out for a walk. She had been known to do this, but never before without Patty's sanction. Of late, though, Patty had objected to it because she feared that Azalea might not return quickly enough.
An azalea was in splendid beauty, and a white French rose, very large and fair, was just blossoming, and with the red roses and the hyacinths and the violets and the daphne and the geraniums, made a wonderful sweet place of the little greenhouse. I lost myself in delight again; but this time the delight did not issue in homesickness. The flowers had another message for me to-day.
So all that evening, and far into the starlit night, she struggled doggedly forward, leading her lamed horse over the mountain, dragging him through laurel thickets, tangles of azalea and rhododendron, thrashing across the swift mountain streams that tumbled out of starry, pine-clad heights, foaming athwart her trail with the rushing sound of forest winds.
Don't be foolish, Azalea, dear," Farnsworth's voice took on a tender tone, "don't be antagonistic. I want to help you, not annoy you. Why not look on me as a friend, and let me know all you're about? There can be no reason why I shouldn't." "You might not approve," and Azalea looked at him uncertainly. "Why? Are you up to anything wrong?"
We know but very little about dwarfed trees and shrubs in our country as the specimens we see are very small ones and inferior in shape and interest to those we see here. They are everywhere, each little shop has in the midst of its mess of second hand or cheap new things a charming little peach or plum, pine, azalea, or redberry.
At last, Azalea was attired, and looked fairly presentable in her white frock; though having no white shoes and stockings she wore black ones. "I'd like white ones," she said, apologetically, "but I could only have two pairs so I got black and the ones I wore here." "Quite right," said Patty, appreciatively; "I'll be glad to get you some white ones. They'd be pretty with this frock."
Though, as she said, she was always busy, it was by her own wish, and she would have been miserable if she had had nothing to do. Azalea, as Bill expressed it later to Patty, was a whole show! The girl was ignorant of manners and customs that were second nature to her hosts, and was even unacquainted with the uses of some of the table furniture.
But now she was subdued and even frightened of demeanour, and Patty knew that Bill had done all that was necessary and further reproaches from her were not needed. "And another thing," Farnsworth was saying, "I want to know why you have had no letters from your father since I asked to see one, that was two or three weeks ago!" "I have had one," Azalea answered, sullenly, "I had one this morning."
She reached and shook a little iron bell. In shuffled a small Negro girl about twelve, barefoot, not very tidy, glowering at me with thumb in mouth and bulging eyes. Azalea Adair opened a tiny, worn purse and drew out a dollar bill, a dollar bill with the upper right-hand corner missing, torn in two pieces, and pasted together again with a strip of blue tissue paper.
The subject was dropped and not resumed until after Gale had gone home. Then Farnsworth asked Azalea who her friends were who had called. "I told you they were Mr. and Mrs. Brown," she said, glibly. "I met them on the train coming from the West, and we got quite well acquainted." "But their name is not Brown," Bill said, quietly, "tell me what it is, or, tell me why you don't want to divulge it."
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