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Then they put away the planks and boxes and played tag and hide and seek until it was time for supper, when the boys and girls went home. "We've had a lovely time!" they said to Bunny and Sue. Just before supper Mrs. Brown needed something from the store. "I'll go get it," offered Bunny. "I'll get it at Mrs. Golden's." "I'll go with you," said Sue, and soon they were at the little corner grocery.
"Denny has been showing you the books, eh! He had no more right to do that than you had to pry into my affairs. While Miss Golden's investment may not be so large as some others', she has influential friends. She did yeoman service in the cause, and I can't allow your foolish fancies to interfere with my plans." "Fancies!" cried the woman, furiously. "You behaved like a school-boy with her.
And the shoeman said I brought him good trade and he gave me a piece of beeswax. So maybe we could get customers for Mrs. Golden." "Maybe we could!" cried Sue. "Let's tell the other boys and girls to get their fathers and mothers to let them buy things at Mrs. Golden's, and then she'll have a lot of customers!" "Oh, let's!" cried Bunny Brown. And they did.
Casey's shattered division was in the rear, guarding Bottom's Bridge and the road to the White House. The line stretched from Mechanicsville across the river to Golden's Farm, and thence to Fair Oaks. The whole of this extensive line was protected by earthworks of marvelous magnitude, and whole forests of timber slashed in front of some parts of the line formed almost impenetrable abattis.
Una was accustomed to say only that she would be "away this evening," but over the teapot she quoted Walter's opinions on Omar, agnosticism, motor magazines, pipe-smoking, Staten Island, and the Himalayas, and it was evident that she was often with him. Mrs. Golden's method of opposition was very simple.
Meantime, while the battle raged with fury on the north side of the Chickahominy, there was active work in our own front. Our Second division, at Golden's Farm, was joined on the left by Sedgwick's division, of the Third corps.
Now here are two." He tossed them on the counter and went out into the sunlit street. Bunny looked at the two letters. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "One's from Mrs. Golden's son Philip. Maybe it's about the legacy!" Bunny had seen the name Philip Golden in the corner of the envelope. "Who's the other from?" asked Sue. "The Grocery Supply Company," read the little boy from the other envelope.
"I think so, too!" said Lemuel; and both gave something like a sigh of relief. "Then that's settled," said Father Golden, "saying and supposing that no objection turns up. Next thing is, what shall we call this child?" All eyes were fixed on the baby, who, now full of warm milk, sat throned on Mother Golden's knee, blinking content.
Golden had better pay him some money, Bunny and Sue looked sharply at him, Sue holding on to the broom. "'Cause I thought maybe he was a robber coming after Mrs. Golden's money," she explained later. "What would you have done if he had been a robber?" asked Uncle Tad. "I'd 'a' hit him with the broom," Sue replied. "And I'd have helped her!" exclaimed Bunny. But this was afterward.
On one hand was Golden's Hotel, and a crowded mail-coach was dashing out from the arch beneath it, the horn blowing merrily; on the other hand, so I was told by a friendly man in brown, was Northumberland House, the gloomy grandeur whereof held my eyes for a time. And I made bold to ask in what district were those who had dealings with the colonies.
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