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"I believe you," said Janice wistfully, for of late she had begun to realize that a household of just two people was awfully small. It became quite shocking when she suddenly understood that Mrs. Carringford must give up looking after the Day household and attend thereafter strictly to her own family. Of course, Mr. Day had seen this from the first; but it came as a shock to his little daughter.
Carringford had a good deal of extra work to do, anyway, for she had to go to the lawyer's office and to the court, and interest herself in many things she had known little about before. She was fighting to save her home. Indeed, Amy declared the Carringford family did not know "whether it was on its head or its heels." Only Gummy. Nothing seemed to disturb Gummy.
Miss Marble gave her a sharp word and propounded the same question to Amy Carringford. The latter returned the correct answer, and then gave the red-faced Stella a deprecatory smile. "Don't you grin at me, you pauper!" hissed Stella, and so loudly that several of the girls near by heard her words. Even Miss Marble took notice of Stella's speech, although she could not overhear what she said.
Carringford, said Strout, 'I hope you are ready to take up that mortgage right now, without no hanging back. He knew of course that mother didn't have a whole thousand dollars left no, sir! He knows all right just what she had in the beginning, and that we've been living off it for more than a year," said Gummy. "So mother told him she could not take up the mortgage.
"She's an awfully nice girl, Mumsy!" she said to her mother. Janice laughed. But her bright eyes were taking in much besides the smiling expression on her friends' faces. The Carringford kitchen was like wax. Mrs. Carringford had been washing in one comer of the room, and there was a boiler drying behind the stove. But there was nothing sloppy or sudsy about the room.
"Oh, Gummy" she said eagerly, catching the drift of his desire. "With his pockets full of money!" The boy nodded vigorously. "You see, Janice, it would be worth while being called 'Gumswith' then, sure enough." Janice could not blame Gummy Carringford feeling as he did. He really should have something to pay him for being called by such an atrocious name!
With the unfortunate experiences they had had with help, however, Janice did not wonder that daddy found nobody to suit him at the agencies. Olga, Delia, Mrs. Watkins and all those who had come and gone before were enough to fill the mind of any person with despair. Janice did not forget to tell Mrs. Carringford what Mr. Day had said regarding her trouble, and that on the very next day.
Of course, a tax-deed has no standing in court if the real owner of the property comes forward ready to pay the back taxes, accrued interest, and the fixed court charges." "But I got a warranty deed!" cried Mrs. Carringford. "That is a matter between you and the person you say you bought the house of," said the lawyer calmly.
"'Gummy'!" ejaculated Mr. Day. Janice told him all about that boy's unfortunate name. "You see," she explained, "Mrs. Carringford told me herself this afternoon that his Uncle John Gumswith was a very nice man." "Seems to me," said daddy, quite amused, "that doesn't make the boy's name any less unfortunate. And have they never even heard of the uncle since he went to Australia?" "No, sir."
But even if Gummy's trousers were patched at the knees, as Stella Latham had pointed out, they were patched neatly, and his linen was fresh. Of course, nobody called on Mrs. Carringford; at least, almost nobody. The rickety little cottage in Mullen Lane did not attract callers by its outward appearance, that was sure.
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