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"I'm afraid he would never see the paper unless we lent him our copy," replied Miss Mullett, with a smile. "But surely we might convey by our manner when meeting him on the street that we would be pleased to make his acquaintance?" "Why, Caroline Mullett!" gasped Eve, in mock astonishment. "What kind of behavior is that for two respectable maiden ladies?"
"I hope it won't come to that," he answered. "But there's another thing I want you to do, and as it's something you can do without wounding your conscience, I hope you will." "It sounds formidable. What is it, please?" "Come over this afternoon and have tea, you and Miss Mullett. Will you?" "Gladly. I haven't had afternoon tea since I left New York." "Then shall we say four o'clock?
The ladies were quite on time, Miss Mullett looking sweet and cheerful in pink and white, and Eve absolutely lovely and adorable in pale-blue linen that matched her eyes to the fraction of a tone. They settled themselves in the cool parlor and talked while the shades rustled and whispered in the little scented breeze that stole through the open windows.
"The last thing I'd do," Eve replied, smilingly. "One's friends are the very ones to avoid when you want unbiased advice. For instance, there's Carrie Mullett. I told her what you said the other night, and what do you suppose her advice was?" "I'm sure it was sensible," said Wade. "She's a very sensible, as well as a very charming, lady." "H'm; well, she said: 'Accept enough to live on, my dear.
"They're going fishing, Eve." "Are they?" asked Eve from the old mahogany desk by the side window, with only a glance from her writing. "Yes, and Did you see where those hoops rolled to?" "No, I didn't notice. But your handkerchief is over by the couch and you're stepping on a skein of linen." "So I am." Miss Mullett rescued and reassembled her things and sat down again. "Are you very busy, dear?"
"I promised I would, and besides," with a wink, "I think 'twould be better to do it 'cause, between you and me, I don't b'lieve Seth knows that he's been thinkin' of runnin' for the committee and has decided not to." The second member of the school board, John Mullett, was, so the Captain said, a sort of "me too" to Mr. Bangs, and would vote as his friend directed. The third member was Mr.
Wade, eating and drinking spasmodically, told of his adventures in search of lemons. "Prout's emporium was quite out of them," he explained. "Prout said he had had some a few weeks ago, but they were sold. So I walked over to The Centre and got them there." Miss Mullett eluded him anxiously and insisted that the Doctor should examine his pulse.
Eve and Miss Mullett treated it with vast respect, but the Doctor met it metaphorically with open arms, as one welcomes an old friend, and, under its gentle influence, tossed aside twenty years and made decorous, but desperate, love to Miss Mullett.
Mullett, to inform the latter that he, entirely unaided, had discovered the very teacher that Orham needed in the person of John Baxter's granddaughter. Mr. Mullett, living up to his "me too" reputation, indorsed the selection with enthusiasm, and not only did that, but also told everyone he met, so that Captain Perez heard of it at the post-office the very next afternoon.
Mullett, I guess, he says. 'There seems to be a sort of family feelin' between my head and a chunk of wood. Now what kind of an answer was that, I want to know!" Jed worked at carpentering for a number of years, sometimes going as far away as Ostable to obtain employment. And then his mother was seized with the illness from which, so she said, she never recovered.
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