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You'd be the first to say one of us couldn't go out without proper food. Try, won't you?" "I'll try," Norah said, obediently. "Brownie's got dinner for Wally and me in the breakfast-room," Jim said. "Wouldn't you come down, old girl? It's only old Wal., you know, and and he's so awfully sorry for you, Nor. He's been such a brick. I think it would cheer him up a bit if you came down."
She was a hard-worked woman, and her husband's illness made things harder for her. Still, she was not quite easy at taking what did not belong to her. "I don't suppose any body will miss the coal," she repeated. "I dare say the mistress would have given it to me if I had asked her; and as for its being the Brownie's lump fudge! Bless us! what's that?"
"My man says you're to give the cellar a good cleaning out before you put any more in," said she, in her sharp voice; "and don't be lazy about it. It'll not take you ten minutes, for it's nearly all coal-dust, except that one big lump in the corner you might clear that out too." "Stop, it's the Brownie's lump! better not meddle with it," whispered the little scullery-maid.
"No need to do that," replied Phil quietly. "'Brownie' and I will take you between us. Put a hand on my shoulder. Easy, son! That's it. Now the other on 'Brownie's. Right you are. Just let yourself float. Ready, 'Brownie? Don't hurry. Easy does it. We've got an eighth of a mile or so and there's no use getting tired at the start. I guess the tide will help us, though."
How did you find your way here?" "Oh looked about me. I had finished my writing, and there was nothing to do." "I'm so sorry," Norah said contritely. "You see, Brownie's sick, and I'm on duty here." "You!" said Cecil, with a laugh. "And what can YOU do in a kitchen?" Norah blushed at the laugh more than at the words. "Oh, you'll get some sort of a dinner," she said.
I never could see why you should go short, an' you all 'elpin' on the war as 'ard as you could." Brownie's indifference to national considerations where her nurselings were concerned was well known, and nobody argued with her. "Any'ow, the cake's there, an' just you try it it's as light as a feather, though I do say it." Once in the kitchen Norah and the boys went no further.
Everyone was hungry, and did full justice to "Brownie's" forethought; while Norah, behind the tall teapot, declared that it was a job for two men and a boy to pour out for such a thirsty trio. Harry helped the fruit salad, and Harry's helpings were based on his own hunger, and would have suited Goliath.
It was a long tail, but not as long as Brownie's. Even as Peter blinked and stared in surprise the stranger opened his mouth and from it came Glory's own beautiful whistle. Then the stranger looked down at Peter, and his eyes twinkled with mischief. "Fooled you that time, didn't I, Peter?" he chuckled. "You thought you were going to see Glory the Cardinal, didn't you?"
"If not eleven, then it's four," said Brownie placidly. "Strange, I can't never remember which, an' it don't sinnerfy, any'ow. Welkim 'ome an' you too, Master Wally." "How are you, Murty?" Jim shook hands with the stockman, while Wally bowed low over Brownie's hand. "I've lived for this moment," he said, fervently. "Brownie, you grow younger every time I go away!"
"Oh, cooking and things," Norah had answered. "Brownie's not very well, and I said I'd help her there's a lot to do just now, you know." She stood on tiptoe to kiss her father. "Good-bye, Dad don't be too long, will you? And take care of yourself!" Cecil also had declined to go out, giving "letters to write" as a reason.
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