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Eunice's had been made some time ago, and the large-sized hoop she wore had already upset a pail and dragged a griddle from the stove hearth, greatly to the discomfiture of Mrs. Markham, who did not fancy hoops, though she wore a small one this afternoon under her clean and stiffly-starched dress of purple calico. St.
"But she arose and followed him, not satisfied with this assurance. Miss Ringtop sat rigidly still. She would have received with composure the news of his drowning. "As Eunice's white dress disappeared among the cedars crowning the shore, I sprang up and ran after her. I knew that Abel was not intoxicated, but simply excited, and I had no fear on his account: I obeyed an involuntary impulse.
Why, man alive, don't you s'pose if anything worth findin' had been found on Eunice's property she'd ha' told me the first one? An' me an' her livin' like sisters, so to speak, even sence I growed up, savin' the spell whilst Mr. Sprigg, he was alive. Two years I spent in my own house 't Mr. Sprigg he built, on his own piece of woodland 'j'inin' hers, and she buyin' it off me soon's he departed.
The butler, who was also Embury's valet and a general household steward, looked up quickly. He had been in Miss Ames' employ for many years before Eunice's marriage, and now, in the Embury's city home was the indispensable major-domo of the establishment. "Yes," went on Aunt Abby, "that will make it all quite circumspect and correct. Ferdinand, tomorrow you accompany me to Newark, New Jersey."
Love ill-fated and ill-bestowed but love that no profanation could stain, that no hereditary evil could conquer the True Love that had been, and was, and would be, the guardian angel of Eunice's life.
Who did it?" "That's what we're trying to discover. Could do you think Mrs, Embury could have had sufficient motive " "Eunice!" Fifi screamed. "What an idea! Eunice Embury to kill her own husband! Oh, no!" "But only she and that aunt of hers had opportunity. You know how their bedrooms are?" "Oh, yes, I know. Miss Ames is using Eunice's dressing-room and a nuisance it is, too."
True, a thought did trail teasingly across his mind for a moment, a dim wonder as to where the money was to come from to pay for the expensive luxuries of nurse and doctor and medicines and fire, but it faded presently, and instead his Aunt Eunice's old song took its place: "I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond beyond beyond "
Miss Eunice's father stationed the officer at one door, while he, with a pistol, stood at the other. Then Miss Eunice went into the apartment. She was wasted, weak, and nervous. The two villains got up as she came in, and bowed. She began to tremble as usual, and laid hold upon the mantelpiece. "How much do you want?" she gasped. The man gave the woman a push with his forefinger.
"Yes, Hugh, you are very sick," and Aunt Eunice's tears dropped upon the face of her boy, so fearfully changed since yesterday. He wiped them away himself, and looked inquiringly at her. "Am I so sick that it makes you cry? Is it the fever I've got?" "Yes, Hugh, the fever," and Aunt Eunice bowed her face upon his burning hands.
It takes so long, so long;" and there were tears in her voice. "Here we are!" exclaimed Chilian. There was a white picket fence across the sort of courtyard that had a broad paved path leading up to the front door, bordered by shrubs that would presently be in bloom, and spaces between for smaller plants. This was the delight of Eunice's heart.
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