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Updated: June 17, 2025
As yet it had not rained hard; but just as Janice turned off High Street toward the store, the heavens opened and the rain fell in torrents. She ran laughing to the porch of the Drugg's store. For once the man was at the front, and he welcomed her with his polite, storekeeper's smile, and the natural courtesy which was usual with him. Janice remembered how the carping Mrs.
"Now!" whined Aunt 'Mira, when Marty had stumped up to bed. "What good is it goin' ter do that boy ter go ter school an' learn baseball, I want ter know?" Janice met Nelson Haley a couple of days later in Hopewell Drugg's store. The matter had been decided ere then; Haley had obtained the school and had quickly established himself in a boarding-place, as the school would open the next week.
To get together the money that specialist demands to treat Lottie's eyes, you must endeavor to increase your trade. Make the store just as attractive as possible. That's business, I believe. Daddy would say so, I am sure." Hopewell allowed himself to be convinced. There was not a store in town as attractive as Drugg's, after Clean-Up Day. The whole of Poketown, indeed, was in a new dress.
"I should think you'd be willing to do something for her!" "What do you mean?" and a little snap, which delighted Janice, suddenly came into Drugg's tone. "Just what I say, Mr. Drugg. You speak as though you loved her." "And who says I don't?" "Your actions." "My actions? What do you mean by that?" and the man flushed more deeply than before.
And I believe I shall give up teaching school. I'm really tired of it." Janice gladly accepted the invitation, and she bribed one of the youngsters with a nickel to run around to Hillside Avenue and tell Aunt Almira where she was. Miss 'Rill's boarding place was on the same side street where was located Hopewell Drugg's store.
"Why, they've made sech a to-do over findin' that gold piece in Hope Drugg's possession, that they don't dare go on an' prosercute the schoolmaster nossir!" "Bully!" exclaimed the thoughtless Marty. "That's all right, then." "But but," objected Janice, with trembling lip, "that doesn't clear Nelson at all!" "It answers the puppose," proclaimed Uncle Jason.
Haw! haw! haw!" Hopewell Drugg's store was a very different looking shop now from its appearance that day when Janice had led little blind Lottie up from the wharf at Pine Cove and delivered her to her father for safe keeping. Then the goods had been dusty and fly-specked, and the interior of the store dark and musty.
Scattergood," cried the girl. "I declare, Miz Scattergood," said Aunt 'Mira, with interest, "you here at this time o' night? I am glad to see ye." "Guess ye air some surprised," said the snappy, birdlike old woman whom Janice ushered into the sitting room. "I only got back from Skunk's Holler, where I been visitin', this very day. And what d'ye s'pose I found when I went into Hopewell Drugg's?"
The girl spent a very pleasant hour after tea, too, and started home just as dusk was dropping over the hillside town. There was a light in Hopewell Drugg's store. He never seemed to have customers or so it appeared to Janice.
A favorite slide of the Poketown young people was from the head of the street on which Hopewell Drugg's store was located, down the hill, past the decayed dock on which Janice had first seen little Lottie Drugg, and on across the frozen inlet to the wooded point in which Lottie declared the echo dwelt.
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