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Mrs. Forbes is doing everything that is necessary. Father has waited over two trains. He hasn't gone to the city yet." At the mention of Mr. Evringham Eloise sank back in her chair. "Dr. Ballard is coming again toward evening," continued Mrs. Evringham, "and I shall talk with him and find out just the conditions. Mrs.
"Your father is not a Christian Scientist, I presume," remarked Mr. Evringham. "Oh yes, he's learning to be. Of course he goes to church " "He does, eh?" put in the broker, surprised. "Of course; and he studies the lesson with us every day. He had been sorry so much and so long, you know, mother said he was all ready; and beside beside" Jewel hesitated and became silent. "Beside what?"
And I didn't braid my hair over." Mr. Evringham looked startled. "She'll do it, I dare say, before dinner," he replied. "If she has time. She has gone riding with Dr. Ballard. They just trotted away together. Oh, it was lovely!" Mr. Evringham, leaning his head back, looked off under his heavy brows as he responded:
I like him first-rate, and I don't mean him any harm; but he's one of these young doctors with plenty of money at his back, bound to have a fashionable practice and succeed. His face is in his favor, and I guess he knows as much as any of 'em, and he can afford the luxury of a wife brought up the way Eloise Evringham has been. That's right, Zeke.
On his back was fastened a side saddle, and he was tethered to the rail of the light fence. Mr. Evringham appeared not to see him. He was looking down the rocks and grass of the steep incline. "Is there any sort of a path?" he asked, "or do you descend it as you would a cellar door? I think you might have told me, so I could change these light trousers."
Evringham's thoughts had fled to Chicago. "Harry proposed leaving the girl here while they are gone," he said. Mrs. Evringham straightened in her chair and her attention concentrated. "With you? What assurance! How like Harry!" she exclaimed. The words were precisely those which her host had been saying to himself; but proceeding from her lips they had a strange effect upon him.
"I can understand your mother's being too self-respecting to pass thirty," he returned, "but just why your father shouldn't, I fail to understand." "Why, it's error to be weak and wear spectacles and have things, isn't it?" asked Jewel, with such swift earnestness that Mr. Evringham endeavored to compose his countenance. "Have things?" he repeated. Jewel's head fell to one side.
The golden dog had deeply impressed Jewel's fancy, and when she finished relating the story, her face all alight, Mr. Evringham shook his head. "Star is going to have his hands full, I can see," he remarked, restraining Essex Maid's longing for a gallop. "Why, grandpa?" "To hold his own against that dog." Jewel looked thoughtful.
You weren't ill then!" "No o," scornfully, "of course not. I knew it all the time, but it seemed so real to me, and so hot, I knew I'd have to have some one else handle the claim for me." "It certainly did seem rather real." Mr. Evringham smiled. Jewel saw that he did not in the least comprehend. "You know there isn't any devil, don't you, grandpa?" she asked patiently.
I can only pray that he will get away without seeing Eloise. Mrs. Bonnell has invited us to make her a visit this summer. I certainly shall not go one step!" A sudden sound of laughter was heard on the quiet air. Mrs. Evringham leaned forward. "There are the children now," she said, as figures turned in at the gateway; "and who is that? It is" with desperation, "he's here!
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