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The seventh wave washed up at her very feet the form of her husband, still breathing and with Mac's body dangling from his unconscious grasp. Under such circumstances, some men would have thanked Providence. Dr. McAlister was of other stuff. "Phebe, come here!" he commanded. "You know what to do. You go to work on Mac, while I try to see if anything can be done for Billy.
You was with Mis' Farrington's folks; wasn't you, she that was Theodora McAlister?" "Yes." "She does a good deal of writin', I hear. Does she get much out of it?" Phebe hesitated, assailed by doubts as to how large a story Mrs. Richardson would swallow, and her hostess swept on, "She's spreadin' herself a good deal, and it can't all be her earnin's. Do you take after her?"
He shook his head at the six-pound culprit who stood before him, waggling his stumpy tail in smug satisfaction over the success of his undertaking. "Change his name to Nimrod, Cis," he said gravely; "and send for Babe to mend her first emergency case." "Where is Babe?" Dr. McAlister asked, one noon in late May. "Here." Phebe's voice came from the piazza outside.
"You had an easy journey; didn't you?" Hubert asked. "Yes; at least, as easy as it could be with Mac." "I think you have slandered Mac," Mrs. McAlister observed. "He seems as gentle as a cooing dove." Hope and Theodora exchanged glances, as Hubert said laughingly, "That's because he paid you a compliment. Your judgment isn't a fair one." But Hope only added,
McAlister came back from a final survey of the corner house, made her eleventh tour of the parlor, dining-room and kitchen at The Savins, and then took her stand at the front window where she tapped restlessly on the glass and swayed the curtain to and fro impatiently. She was not a nervous woman; but to-night her mood demanded constant action.
"Wait and see what the morrow may bring forth." The morrow brought forth Mac, rested, refreshed, ready for mischief. Before breakfast was on the table, he had had an unfriendly interview with Patrick, had come into collision with Melchisedek, and Mrs. McAlister met him hurriedly retiring from the kitchen with both hands full of fried potatoes.
We killed five or six of them, but were beaten down and ten of our number were slain. They murdered all the sick in the wagons and marched us away, bound, to this village where you found us. Sandy McAlister they had murdered just as you came up, and we should have had a like horrible fate had you been a few minutes later.
For the hour, earth was almost as radiant as the sun; but the quiet drop, drop, drop of the yellow leaves through the golden, hazy air told that the end was not far distant, that too soon the gold would give place to the grey and the brown. This autumn season had brought a new break into the McAlister family circle.
Gifford Barrett had been included in the revel of the evening before, and now, at the Christmas dinner, he sat in the place of honor, next Mrs. McAlister. In all its history, The Savins had never held a merrier party, and Dr.
"Do you think you could work it, Mac?" "Yes, it goes just like ve clock. He winds it up wiv a key, and ven it goes all right. Grandma!" "Well?" Mac dropped his sand into her lap, and then plumped himself down by her side. "Did you see vat funny man in ve pinky suit? Well, he's Mrs. Benson's boy." "Hush, dear!" Mrs. McAlister said hastily, for Mrs. Benson's awning was next her own.
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