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John complained of Hepsie's work only when with his wife alone, for Aunt Susan had been so constant in her praises that he would not start a discussion which he had found he brought out by such criticism. Susan Hornby looked on, and was as much puzzled as ever about the relations of the young couple.
It was hard to keep from laughing at the comical look on the little girl's face, and certainly what she said was true. Some one was very often in a rage with Hepsie's tongue.
She had not told him of Hepsie's remarks nor of her advice. Elizabeth was not a woman to tattle, and the "old woman" Hepsie had referred to was his mother. "Don't think I'm hard on her, John. If we could only get another girl I wouldn't care."
No words could describe the joy in his wife's heart when her father took their hands and asked their forgiveness for years of estrangement, and told the tale of the intercepted letters, which he might never have discovered had it not been for little Hepsie's Christmas visit of peace and goodwill.
And what were Hepsie's feelings then when the old man rose, and seizing her in his arms, cried brokenly: "Oh, child, if only your mother had said the same only just once in the midst of my anger but she passed her father by, she passed him by! And never a word in all these years of my loneliness and pain! My heart is breaking, for all its pride!"
The move she had made in going to meeting the first Sunday after John's departure, and Hepsie's explanation of it, had worked to her advantage in reestablishing her in the community as one of its factors, and opened to her the opportunity to wield the influence which Luther had pointed out to her the best educated woman in a community should wield.
He looked about him for Jack the first night and asked where he was. "I sent him up to Hepsie's room," Elizabeth said quietly. "To sleep!" "Yes." "The children in the Hunter family are not put into the servants' beds," John Hunter replied. The unexplained statement was offensive to a man accustomed to being consulted. To punish her John went to sleep without giving her the usual good-night kiss.
After winding up the affairs of her brother, she undertook to pay a visit to her sister, who had fallen ill. It was too much for the good old soul; she died on the journey. Hepsie's Christmas Visit "I say, little mother," said Hepsie, as she tucked her hand under Mrs.
"I think I'll take that youngster home with me if you're goin' t' be alone t' day," he announced. Doctor Morgan looked relieved. "That's about the kindest thing you could do for this girl," he said. "Noland isn't as well as I'd like to have him, and she's up every hour in the night. It takes a hired girl to run off at a time like this." Elizabeth defended Hepsie at once. "Hepsie's pure gold.
She knew the extra work which had fallen on Hepsie's shoulders in those last weeks, and particularly since she herself had been out of bed, for the girl loved Elizabeth and had shielded her by extra steps many times when her own limbs must have ached with weariness. "You don't mean to say you used the tin pans for any thing as corroding as tomatoes!" Mrs. Hunter exclaimed in astonishment.
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