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She grew thin and wan with confinement and watching, but as the time drew near when her present care should cease and she should go home again, her face wore a look of peace beautiful to see. "Effie," said Christie one day, after she had been silently watching her a little while, "you are more willing that I should go now, I think?" Effie started.
Gertrude rose at last. "That is a hint that it is time for me to go," she said. Christie laughed. "Well, yes. You know Mrs Seaton was displeased to find us sitting up the other night when she came home. It is nearly ten." "Oh, she won't be home to-night till the small hours have struck. Miss Atherton will take care of that. There is no fear of her finding us up to-night."
"I don't know," said Christie musingly; "but perhaps it's just as well if we kept a little more to ourselves for a while." "Did father say so?" said Jessie quickly. "No, but that is evidently what he meant." "Ye-es," said Jessie slowly, "unless " "Unless what?" said Christie sharply. "Jessie, you don't for a moment mean to say that you could possibly conceive of anything else?"
A heavy summer shower was falling, and all the boys had taken refuge from it in the house, and there were noise and confusion for a time. "I want Christie to come into the barn and see our wool," said Shenac Bhan at last, when the shower was over. "And, Shenac dark Shenac, doleful Shenac you are to stay and keep the lads in order till we come back." Shenac Dhu made a face, but let them go.
I'll read quietly till you want me. Then I shall be very glad to do any thing I can for you." With that Christie retired to the big chair, and fell to reading the first book she took up, a good deal embarrassed by her reception, and very curious to know what would come next. The old woman went away after folding the down coverlet carefully over her darling's feet, and Helen seemed to go to sleep.
"I wouldn't care so much for myself; but these poor little children who have no one but me, and I so weak and helpless. My heart fails when I think of all they may have to bear. I suppose my mother had just such anxious thoughts about me. Oh, if she had known all! but she could not have helped me here." "But the verse says, `A very present help in trouble," said Christie, softly.
Stand aside, Christie," Braddock said to his trembling daughter. "Don't get in the way. Oh, I'm not going to smash the cub, so don't worry. Here! Come away from him, I say. Both of you. I won't stand for any petting of a rascal like him. Well, I'll tell you, Joey Noakes," he went on, turning to the clown, "I don't mind saying I need the money.
"And she will remember that she bought my first sketch; she will say she made me," said young Christie. "You will not care then: everybody knows that a man makes himself. Phipps calls her vain-glorious; Carnegie calls her the very core of goodness. In either case you don't need her. There is only one patron for men of art and literature in these days, and that is the General Public.
It did not quite reach the wall on one side, for Mrs Nesbitt's Scottish parlour had been smaller than this one; and the deficiency was supplied by a breadth of drugget, of a different shade of colour, which might have marred the effect somewhat to one more fastidious than Christie.
So homelike, so pleasant, so very dear to her, that Christie yearned to stay, yet dared not, and had barely time to steady face and voice, when David came in with the little posies he always had ready for his mother and Christie at breakfast time.
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