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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Yes, 'tis; an' he does a lot of funny things. Once when we was to New York, I wanted a penny, and he said to get it in his pocket, an' there wasn't one penny there, but all the pretty letters Miss Kittie had writed to me for my own. I thought 'twas so funny, but he said they were safer there, than in my box, an' I better leave 'm, so I did."
"They have telegraphed for Olive," Kittie whispered to Kat and Jean, as they three sat sleeplessly on the bedside, with their arms about each other, and a pale, hushed awe in their faces. "That means that she is going to die," cried Kat, trembling. "Oh, how dreadful it is! I don't think it's right, no I don't." "Hush," said Kittie, solemnly; but she couldn't say any more.
Dering arrived late in the afternoon; the twins threw open the big gate, shouting the good news as they did so, and Prince came gayly up the old familiar drive with a joyous whisk of his tail, and a loud neigh of recognition, and as Kittie and Kat fell to hugging him wildly, Mrs. Dering hurried into the house, and was met by Bea at the door. "Were is she?
They came back when the tea-bell rang, at least Kittie did, slowly and solemnly through the back yard, and lingered several minutes on the porch, with many mysterious signals to some one, down where the long yard sloped to the pond, and a fringe of willows shaded the water. "Where's Kathy," inquired Ernestine, who strongly objected to the extremely abbreviated form of 'Kat.
In desperate haste to be gone, Champa released the child a moment to tighten one of the bands. A voice called to her. "Run, Kittie." To the casual eye the child was all knobby legs and hair ribbons. She scudded for the stable, sobbing as she ran. At sound of that voice Mysterious Pete leaped to the saddle and whirled his horse. He was too late.
"That Alice Jallow is certainly the meanest girl in Deepdale!" declared Mollie, with vehemence. "And Kittie isn't much better," added Grace, with spirit. "I don't see how Margaret can go with them." "She's a newcomer here, that's the reason," said Betty bouncing Betty she was now, for she was whirling about and "teetering" on her skates in a dizzying fashion.
"I think I'll go on if you don't mind, Aunt Ka I mean, Kittie," she said in a soft voice that was as American in its way as the auburn lady's, but a hundred and fifty times sweeter. I rather fancied that it must have been grown somewhere in the South, where the sun was warm, and the flowers as luxuriant as our Riviera blossoms.
There was nothing to do but plunge in after Kittie, and he plunged, skates and all. Then Mabel heard him gasp and laugh a little, and he called out: "It's all right, by Jove! The water isn't much above my knees." And even as he spoke Mabel saw Kittie rise in the water and sort of hurl herself at him and pull him down into the water, head and all.
Kittie did not care what he did, nor how he got there, so that he really had the permission, and before Willie had time to alter his mind she had flown out the gate, and was fast nearing the humble cottage.
When they came in sight of the little cottage, there was smoke coming gayly from the kitchen chimney, and the front door stood widely open. "What is it?" whispered Kittie, in a spasm of curiosity. "A breakfast already for them," answered Olive. "Dr. Barnett has got Huldah, and Bea doesn't know it." Well, dear me, what a jolly confusion did follow.
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