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Sometime you must come and spend a month with me in my home and you shall meet Doctor Baker." "I never would go and leave Aunt Debby for an entire month. It was bad enough to go to school and not be with her," was Hester's reply. "But Aunt Debby can come along. My father would like her, and she and Aunt Harriet would be friends from the moment they met. Maybe we can arrange it for this summer.
It is a very cheap little pin which belonged to Aunt Debby that is, it belonged to me, and I'd rather keep it than wear it." Berenice gave her shoulders a shrug, lowered her eyelids until her eyes looked like little beads. She would prove to the girls that what she had said was true. Every one of Hester's friends had heard the report but had refused to discuss it.
"Hoping to hear from you very soon, "I am, ever with dearest love, "BLUE BONNET." There was an instant's silence after Kitty stopped reading, and then everybody broke forth at once. "At the Copley Plaza! For three days! To visit Blue Bonnet!" "Isn't it a blessing that our vacation begins on the first, too?" Debby said. "There ought not to be a thing to hinder our going."
"Debby!" she cried hysterically. A great flood of joy swamped her soul. She was not alone in the world, after all! Dutch Debby uttered a little startled scream. "I've come back, Debby, I've come back," and the next moment the brilliant girl-graduate fell fainting into the seamstress's arms.
In the meantime Harry had learned taht the new comers were cousins of Fortner's, who, being out on a private scouting expedition, had been encountered by Aunt Debby and the others, near the summit of the mountain, and had started back with them to the assistance of Fortner. The sound of firing had so excited them that the suggestion of a charge by Kent Edwards was eagerly acceded to.
But those venerable spinsters, the Fates, took the matter into their own hands, and soon got the better of those short-sighted matrons, Mesdames Grundy and Carroll; for, long before they knew it, Frank and Debby had begun to read together a book greater than Dickens ever wrote, and when they had come to the fairest part of the sweet story Adam first told Eve, they looked for the name upon the title-page, and found that it was "Love."
You will meet Aunt Harriet at last." "How strange it seems that I have been here almost four months and yet we have not met! She always came when I was home with Aunt Debby, or in class. I fancy the Fates do not intend that we shall meet." "You shall meet in two minutes, or I am not a reliable prophet," was Helen's reply. Two minutes proved that she was not.
"Ye done God's vengence," said Aunt Debby sternly. "An' yit hit wuz very soon ter expect hit." She clasped her hands upon her forehead and rocked back and forth, gazing fixedly into the mass of incandescent coals. "Hit's gwine to cla'r up ter-morrow," said Fortner, returning from an inspection of the sky at the door. "Le's potter off ter bed," he continued rousing up Harry.
Within half an hour Esther was smiling pallidly and drinking tea out of Debby's own cup, to Debby's unlimited satisfaction. Debby had no spare cup, but she had a spare chair without a back, and Esther was of course seated on the other. Her bonnet and cloak were on the bed. "And where is Bobby?" inquired the young lady visitor. Debby's joyous face clouded. "Bobby is dead," she said softly.
"What, be your chaperon!" cried Debby in responsive excitement; then her voice dropped again. "Oh, no, how could I?" "Yes, yes, you must," said Esther eagerly. Debby's obstinate shake of the head repelled the idea. "I couldn't leave Bobby," she said. After a pause, she asked timidly: "Why not stay here?" "Don't be ridiculous," Esther answered. Then she examined the bed.
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