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Then he led her through the stable of the draught-horses, and that of the carriage horses; let her see the harness-room and the servants' rooms; the laborers' cottages and the wood-carving room.
Rob was braced up, and was as calm and steady as ever when they found him in the harness-room, whither he had wisely retired, to escape observation. The story was soon told, and after a look at Don, now in his kennel, sad and surly, Nan said slowly, with her eye on the full water-pan: 'Rob, there is one thing to do for the sake of safety, and it must be done at once.
With partitions and windows, what a house would there be! Sarah looked at the row of stanchions before the allotted space for cows, and reflected that she would have her front entry there. At six o'clock the stove was up in the harness-room, the kettle was boiling, and the table set for tea. It looked almost as home- like as the abandoned house across the yard had ever done.
Still there was to them more pleasant excitement than anything else. An inborn confidence in their mother over their father asserted itself. Sammy looked out of the harness-room window. "There he is," he announced, in an awed whisper. He and Nanny peeped around the casing. Mrs. Penn kept on about her work.
Those great box-stalls, with quilts hung before them, would make better bedrooms than the one she had occupied for forty years, and there was a tight carriage-room. The harness-room, with its chimney and shelves, would make a kitchen of her dreams. The great middle space would make a parlor, by-and- by, fit for a palace. Upstairs there was as much room as down.
A moment or two later he found Jessup, as he expected, squatting on the floor of the harness-room, busily mending his broken saddle-girth. "Hello, Bud," he grinned, as the youngster looked up in surprise. "Thought I'd come up and have a chin with you." "But how the deuce I thought they yuh " "You thought right," replied Stratton, as Jessup hesitated.
Chinnock had deliberately moved to the harness-room, and Tinling had to repeat his information. 'Ah, indeed, sir! Red Injians? Well, to think o' that! he said cheerfully, as if he was humouring some rather childish remark. 'But we shall want every available man; do you think you can spare time to come and help? ''Bout what time, sir? said Chinnock. 'About nine half-past eight, say. Do try.
He himself took advantage of the lull to slip away to the harness-room on the plea of mending a rip in the stitching of his chaps. Pulling a box over by the window where he could see anyone approaching, he produced pencil and paper and proceeded to write out a rather voluminous document, which he afterward read over and corrected carefully.
You give 'em something and they always want, more. Now you run on and open the stable door. I'm goin' to try if I can ride right into the harness-room without getting off. Don't catch your foot in the door and don't get too near Dolly's hind legs." When the children had vanished around the corner of the house, Mrs. Hawtry turned to Mr. Debrett.
It was sooner than they had expected. Even the nurse had not come. Tillie was alone, out in the harness-room. He looked through the crowded rooms, at the overflowing porch with its travesty of pleasure, and he hated the whole thing with a desperate hatred. Another car. Would they never stop coming! But perhaps it was the doctor. A young man edged his way into the hall and confronted him.
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