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I knew I was being a silly old fool, but my heart beat fast when I took it out and looked at it. On the lid was written "For a good girl," and inside lay the red puffs from Mrs. Yost's window down in Finleyville. Just under them was an envelope. I could scarcely see to open it. "Dearest Minnie," the note inside said, "I had them matched to my own thatch, and I think they'll match yours.
Miss Summers came to my room that night as I was putting my hot-water bottle to bed, in a baby-blue silk wrapper with a band of fur around the low neck Miss Summers, of course, not the hot-water bottle. "Well!" she said, sitting down on the foot of the bed and staring at me. "Well, young woman, for a person who has never been farther away than Finleyville you do pretty well!" "Do what?"
"I might have been still in the Finleyville hotel!" she finished for him. "Awful thought, isn't it?" "Under the circumstances," went on Mr. Sam, nervously, "don't you think it would be er better form if er under the circumstances " "I'm thinking of my circumstances," she put in, good-naturedly.
There was a man named Thoburn who was crazy for the property as a summer hotel, and every time I shut my eyes I could see "Thoburn House" over the veranda and children sailing paper boats in the mineral spring. Sure enough, the next afternoon Mr. Thoburn drove out from Finleyville with a suit case, and before he'd taken off his overcoat he came out to the spring-house.
After a minute or so he came over and pulled the sweater out from the bundle. "I'm glad you like 'em," he said, "but as I bought them at Hubbard's, in Finleyville, and as the old liar guaranteed they wouldn't shrink, we'd better not cry on 'em." Well, I put them on and I was warmer and happier than I had been for some time.
"Hello, Minnie," he exclaimed. "Does the old man's ghost come back to dope the spring, or do you do it?" "I don't know what you are talking about, Mr. Thoburn," I retorted sharply. "If you don't know that this spring has its origin in " "In Schmidt's drug store down in Finleyville!" he finished for me. "Oh, I know all about that spring, Minnie!
"I have borne much for you, Patricia," he said, "but I refuse to be bullied any longer. I shall go to the hotel at Finleyville, and I shall take the little olives with me." He smiled unpleasantly at Mr. Pierce, whose face did not relax. He walked jauntily to the door and turned, flourishing the bottle. "The land of the free and the home of the brave!" he sneered, raising the bottle in the air.
Tillie brought out a basket every morning to me at the spring-house, fairly bursting with curiosity, and Mr. Sam got some canned stuff in Finleyville and took it after dark to the shelter-house. But after the second day Mrs. Dicky got tired holding a frying-pan over the fire and I had to carry out at least one hot meal a day.
Jennings was so glad to have Miss Patty give up the prince and send him back home, after he'd been a week in the hotel at Finleyville looking as if his face would collapse if you stuck a pin in it Mr.
She slammed the door behind her and threw the Finleyville evening paper at me. "There!" she said, "I've won a cake of toilet soap from Bath-house Mike. The emperor's consented." "Nonsense!" I snapped, and snatched the paper.
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