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Easterfield invited the young lady to leave you and to come to her, and as all that has happened to her has happened at our house, and in consequence of that invitation, I think that you, as her nearest accessible relative, should be told of what has occurred." The captain made no answer, but gazed steadily into the face of the speaker. "Therefore," continued Mr.
I may not be correct, but I am afraid I should feel I was being flirted with." "Well, then," said Olive, giving a quick, forward motion on the bench, "you think I ought to settle this matter immediately, and relieve myself at once from the imputation of trifling with earnest affection?" "Oh, no, no, no!" cried Mrs. Easterfield. "Not at all! Don't do anything rash!"
They can't be good, you know, and there's no use trying. We told him so, but he doesn't mind." There was story-telling after luncheon, but the papa did not tell them, and the children were sent away. It was Mrs. Easterfield who told the stories, and Mr. Tom was a most interested listener. "Well," said he, when she had finished, "this seems to be a somewhat tangled state of affairs."
As has been said before, Mrs. Easterfield was exceedingly interested; she was even a little agitated, which was not common with her. She had Mr. Hemphill conducted to his room, and then she waited for him to come down; this also was not common with her. "Mr. Locker," she called from the open door, "do you know where Miss Asher is?"
Easterfield flushed, and then laughed. "I doubt that knowledge. It is certain you do not know me! The young man loves her with all his heart; there is no objection to him; and I am most earnestly in favor of the match." "Ah" said the lieutenant, with a bow; "if that is the case, I must get a pencil and paper and calculate what I can give her for her trousseau.
"Would you mind taking a little walk with me along the road?" "I shall be glad to do so," said Mrs. Easterfield, getting out of the carriage. "Now, my dear Mrs. Easterfield," said Olive when they were some distance from the toll-gate and the house, "I am going to ask you to add to all your kindness one more favor for me." "That has such an ominous sound," said Mrs.
Easterfield also invited Claude Locker "to make things lively in rough weather," and that young man accepted with much alacrity. Mrs. Easterfield was in such a state of delight that she nearly lost her self-possession. Sometimes, her husband told her, she scarcely spoke rationally.
Then he said very quietly: "If she had not, of her own accord, told me that she had once loved me, I should never have dared to say anything like that to her." "I do not think you need any excuse, Mr. Hemphill," said Mrs. Easterfield. "In fact, if you loved her, I do not see how you could help speaking after what she herself said to you." "That is true," he replied.
We are making up a game of tennis. Mr. Du Brant and Mr. Hemphill are there, but I can not find Mr. Locker." Mrs. Easterfield could spare him, and Dick Lancaster, with the curbed chain pressing him very hard, walked away with Olive Asher. The Captain and Maria.
"I have never realized how much she must have thought of my parents!" said Olive to herself, as she gazed upon her father and Mrs. Easterfield. "They are so very glad to see each other!" She did not know that Lieutenant Asher had been to the present Mrs. Easterfield almost as much of a divinity as Mr.
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