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So, offering her his arm, he led her out to where the table was spread, widely different from the table prepared for Katy Lennox away among the Silverton hills, for where at the farmhouse there had been only the homely wares common to the country, with Aunt Betsy's onions served in a bowl, there was here the finest of damask, the choicest of china, the costliest of cut-glass, and the heaviest of silver, with the well-trained waiter gliding in and out, himself the very personification of strict table etiquette, such as the Barlows had never dreamed about.
After the parade, the fair was announced open, and the patrons were requested to spend their money freely for the benefit of the hospital. So well did they respond that, as a result of their efforts, the Tea Club girls were able to present Mrs. Greenleaf with the sum of five hundred dollars toward her good work. Toward the end of August the Barlows' visit drew toward its close.
The Barlows lived much nearer Clarksville than did the Kendalls, though upon a different road, and the young men had a long and round-about drive ere they reached their destination. As they entered the driveway two large dogs came bounding toward them, growling fiercely. "Look out thar, boys, ye do n't git dog-bit!" shouted a voice. "Here Lion, here Tige; commir, ye varmints! What d 'ye mean?
Cameron also was very sorry, very sad, but managed to find some consolation in mentally arranging a grand funeral, which would do honor to her son, and wondering if "those Barlows in Silverton would think they must attend."
Maynard's sickness, or shown any interest in it; but after she learned from the Barlows that she was no longer in danger, she said to her son one morning, before he drove away upon his daily visit, "Is her husband going to stay with her, or is he going back?"
She is a friend of the Barlows, and lives near them in Philadelphia, and she was visiting them down at Long Island when I was there last summer. She's perfectly lovely. She's a grown-up young lady, compared to Bumble and me she's about twenty-two, I think and I know Kenneth will lose his heart to her. He'll have no more use for schoolgirls."
The Barlows were rather late, for upon Uncle Ephraim devolved the duty of seeing to the license, and as he had no seat in that house, his arrival was only known by Aunt Betsy's elbowing her way to the front, and near to the Christmas tree which she had helped to dress, just as she had helped to trim the church.
"We found we could get off at New Brunswick and come back from there." "Why didn't you find out that before telegraphing?" laughed Patty. "Never once thought of it," said Bob, "You know the Barlows are not noted for ingenuity." "Well, they're noted for better things than that," said Patty, as she affectionately squeezed Bumble's plump arm.
It came in a low-breathed whisper of, "The Barlows," and she ran to the telephone, an old-fashioned wall instrument behind the stairs. As she flew toward it another magic lantern picture flashed into being Chrystie boring down into her trunk and the pile of money on the bureau. That forced a sound out of her a sharp, groaned note as if expelled from her body by the impact of a blow.
"Yes," said Bumble, "and she can visit us in Philadelphia in the winter too." Then after many fond good-byes, the Barlows went away, and Patty was left with her Uncle Charlie. After the Barlows had left them Mr.
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