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Updated: June 17, 2025
Beaseley was rather an unobservant person, for Janice's eyes were tear-filled when she looked into the cottage kitchen. Nelson, however, was not at home. He had gone for a long tramp through the fields and had not yet returned. So, leaving word for him to come over to the Day house that evening, Janice went slowly back to her car. Before she could start it 'Rill came outside.
"I'm sure Amy washes her face whether you do or not," chuckled Janice. "Oh, me!" sniffed the boy, but his eyes still twinkling. "I'm always 'gummy'!" Janice's laughter was a silver peal that brought three or four younger Carringfords, including the twins, to the side door. They peered out at their sister and the girl with her, but were bashful. "What a jolly lot of little ones!" sighed Janice.
Some people whom she met as she went up High Street looked at her curiously. Janice held her head at a prouder angle and marched up the hill toward Mrs. Beaseley's. She ignored these curious glances. But there was no escaping Mrs. Scattergood. That lover of gossip must have been sitting behind her blind, peering down High Street, and waiting for Janice's appearance.
"Wait " Don spoke up again "I want to give Aunt Janice's message first." Then, in a rush, it all came out the words fairly running over one another for utterance, and ending with a glowing picture of the pretty house, nestled at the foot of the blue misty hills, "Please say you'll accept and move right in, Mr. Greyson; Aunt Janice really needs your help at once."
Indeed, it seemed as though he called to the loved one who had gone from them never to return. "Laura!" "Daddy!" breathed the girl. "It's me, not mamma! I I'm all that's left to you!" He seemed, even in his sleep, to have heard Janice's murmured words. "All that was left to me," Broxton Day sighed, repeating, as Janice thought, what she had said. Or did he repeat Janice's words?
"Such a nice house!" murmured Amy, as she followed Janice upstairs by the way of the front hall. "And not half kept," sighed Janice. "When dear mother was with us " She and Amy said no more until Janice's bedroom was all spick and span again. Janice hugged her friend heartily when at last the pillows were plumped up at the head of the bed. "You're a dear!" she said.
I can put it out, if I can get out on to that ell roof through that little window up there." he cried. "That's the hired' girl's room," gasped Janice. "What's he going to do? Take pails of water out there and throw them down the chimney?" "Give the boy a chance," said daddy. "Maybe he can do something." And to Janice's amazement, her father was smiling. Gummy ran around to the back of the wagon.
The cook was not in view; but as the girl realised the fact, a cloaked man suddenly stepped from behind the chimney breast, and before the scream that rose to Janice's lips could escape, a firm hand was laid on them. Yet, even in the moment of surprise, the girl was conscious that, press as the fingers might, there was still an element of caress in their touch.
'Rill's secret misgivings regarding Hopewell Drugg, little Lottie's peril of blindness, the general tendency of Polktown as a whole to suffer the bad effects of liquor selling at the tavern all these things had added to Janice's anxiety. Now, on the crest of the threatening wave, rode this happening to Nelson Haley, an account of which Marty had brought home.
But she refused to be driven out of the Poketown School by the unkindness and discourtesy of the larger girls. Her unpopularity, however, made her respond the more quickly to 'Rill Scattergood's advances. The school-teacher showed plainly that she appreciated Janice's friendliness. Janice brought her luncheon and ate it with the teacher.
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