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"My father ill?" Mr. Dinsmore exclaimed in a tone of alarm and concern. "It hardly amounts to that, I presume," Mrs. Conly answered coldly; "but he is not well; didn't eat a mouthful of breakfast." "Grandpa, did you find what you wanted in the morning paper?" queried Edward, joining them at this moment. "Ah, Aunt Louise, how d'ye do?"
Conly instantly recognized as that of her daughter. "Begone instantly! begone, I say!" "Go, go!" Mrs. Conly said to the boy, in half smothered tones, putting a small coin into his hand; then staggering into the room she dropped into a chair, gasping for breath.
"Then I must go home at once, and set about my preparations immediately," she said, rising to take leave. Arthur Conly as well as Edward Travilla had been a surprised but silent listener to the short dialogue. "Can you spare your mother, Arthur?" his uncle asked. "We must, sir, if it pleases her to go, and for the sake of my two sweet cousins Elsie senior and Elsie junior I willingly consent.
Conly took leave almost immediately, for he had no time to spare; and the reading of the letters was resumed. Betty's was a long one, giving a full account, from her point of view, of the contest between Mr. Dinsmore and Lulu Raymond in regard to her refusal to take music-lessons of Signor Foresti after he had struck her.
Conly came home, and almost immediately on his arrival drove over to Ion to see for himself if his patient there had entirely recovered, and to carry some messages and tokens of affection from the absent members of the family.
"Yes; would that we had the same assurance in regard to all his children and grandchildren." Silence fell between them for some minutes. Elsie knew that her father, when making that last remark, was thinking more particularly of his half sister, Mrs. Conly, and her daughter Virginia.
The gas exploded and wrapped us in a sheet of flame, and the next minute some of the neighbors picked up me and Jones. Jones was roasted nearly to a crisp. Exciting, wasn't it? "And they took him over to the farmhouse, where we found that they had fished out Conly and were bringing him to.
Edward was too busy to walk or ride with his wife, and Max and Ralph Conly, at home now for the Easter holidays and self-invited to Ion, became the almost constant sharers of her outdoor exercise. Edward saw it with displeasure, for Ralph was no favorite with him.
Allison, glancing from a window of the parlor-car, saw her brother and nephews standing near the track. They saw her, too, and lifted their hats with a sad sort of smile. All felt that the invalid must be unable to sit up or her face also would have been in sight. In another moment the train had come to a stand-still, and the next the three gentlemen were beside the couch on which Mrs. Conly lay.
Arthur Conly was in it, and, presently, having reached the veranda steps, drew rein, bade good-evening, and announced to his cousins Elsie and Rosie that he had received a telegram from the Crolys thanking him for his invitation and saying that it was accepted and they might be expected in a few days. "Ah! that is good news, if it suits you all at Roselands," said Grandma Elsie.
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