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"I'm sure Amy washes her face whether you do or not," chuckled Janice. "Oh, me!" sniffed the boy, but his eyes still twinkling. "I'm always 'gummy'!" Janice's laughter was a silver peal that brought three or four younger Carringfords, including the twins, to the side door. They peered out at their sister and the girl with her, but were bashful. "What a jolly lot of little ones!" sighed Janice.
Carringford had had no easy time of it with the shyster lawyer and the others who were making trouble for her over her property. But in the end her own lawyer triumphed; and then the mortgage on the place was cleared off, much to the satisfaction of both the Carringfords and the Days.
Amy talked, too, about friends in Napsburg, where the Carringfords had lived before moving to Greensboro. Janice was adroit in keeping the conversation on rather general topics, and did not allow the question of Stella's party to come to the fore and never once did she speak of what any of the girls would wear on that occasion.
The woman had whisked off the big apron she had worn when Janice entered, and now the latter saw that her work dress was spotless. "Oh, dear me!" thought Janice, "how nice it would be if our kitchen and our whole house were like this. How delighted Daddy would be." But there was something else she did not at first see. She had to get acquainted with all the younger Carringfords.
"A correspondent of mine in Cleveland has written me about a family of Carringfords, and I shouldn't be surprised if these were the same people. If they are " "What's all the mystery, Payne?" asked Broxton Day, with sudden interest, for he saw that the lawyer meant more than he had said. "If this is Alexander Carringford's widow, I don't know but my news is in two pieces." "Meaning?"
"About other people's troubles?" he asked, with a quizzical smile. "Yes, I do. It's about the Carringfords." "Ah-ha! You were saying once that they were in trouble over their home, were you not? I looked that place up. A fellow named Strout " "And he's so mean!" declared Janice with vigor. "Yes. That seems to be his middle name," agreed her father quietly. "I am afraid Mrs.
She is a grand-daughter of the old Methodist minister who lives at the corner; secretary of his church board, or something, isn't he? I've noticed two or three little Carringfords playing in the yard as I go by, and all of them handsome." Austen placed them at once. The child's mother was the daughter of the old minister, and, with husband and children, lived in the little brown house with him.
A five hundred dollar loss on the Mullen Lane property did not look so big when it was understood that, through Gummy, the Carringfords were going to get almost ten thousand dollars. It seemed that more than a year before, Mr. John Gumswith, of Melbourne, Australia, had died, leaving a considerable fortune to friends he had made there and with whom he had lived for more than a dozen years.
Alexina became twenty-one in May. She had found that in the settling of her affairs it would be necessary for her to remain in Louisville and so had written her mother to come to her there. She explained about the change in her life to the Carringfords, to find that they knew all about her mother; probably her little world, Georgy, Dr.
With Amy and her brother, the boy with the odd name, Janice often discussed the lost treasure-box. She and daddy did not speak so much together about it as at first. It seemed to be hopelessly lost. With the Carringfords Janice had become very friendly, as has been said. In the first place, Mrs. Carringford very much liked Janice Day.
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