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Stella was rather surprised at the affectionate greeting between her cousin and Miss Eastwood the first day they met at school, for she had scarcely given Lucy an opportunity of telling her more than that they had met often at Oakvale.
"Now that I think of it," he remarked presently, "it strikes me I read something about a batch of Oakvale scouts that helped the people over in Lawrence when they had that big flood there. Are you some of that lot, boys?"
"We belong in Oakvale, and have come up here to spend a couple of days camping out. Besides that one of us has been commissioned to take some pictures of an old deserted mansion not far away from here, which his aunt in the city is expecting to buy, if his report turns out favorable. That's the whole story, I give you my word of honor, sir." The tall man looked straight into Hugh's face.
However, Amy seemed to improve under the healthful influences of Oakvale, living almost wholly in the fresh open air, perfumed with mignonette and other sweet summer flowers, sitting with Lucy under the trees before Mrs. Browne's house, or in her shady verandah, where, even on the warmest day, there was a breeze to cool the sultry air.
"We had been girlish friends, With hearts that, like the summer's half-oped buds, Grew close, and hived their sweetness for each other." Lucy and Amy were soon settled in Mrs. Browne's pleasant little cottage at Oakvale, a pretty sheltered village surrounded by hills, clothed principally with noble oaks, whence it derived its name. Mrs.
And my aunt had supplied all the necessary funds covering our railroad fare from Oakvale to the little station where we jumped off the local train -Scarsdale." "Which aunt, Alec?" demanded Billy, whom it was always difficult to suppress. "Oh! none of you ever met this relative of mine, I guess," considered Alec.
If no other means were found available for gaining access to the room of the prisoner, Hugh expected to make good use of that axe, and force an entrance through the roof itself, as he had seen the Oakvale volunteer firemen do on more than one occasion. Billy and Arthur watched their chums climbing hastily through that window.
"Why, yes," the shorter guard now remarked, "and when I went down home last week in Chester they were talking about how some scouts had helped fight the forest fires over Oakvale way. Mebbe now you chaps had a hand in that game, too?" For answer Billy thrust out his left hand before the man's eyes. "See that red scar on the back of my hand?" he asked.
His way took him first along Main Street and thence down one of the narrower side streets or lanes which branched off on each side. Oakvale was scarcely more than a large village, but it boasted many shops, two drugstores, a public school, a post office, and four saloons. As Tom passed one of these haunts he saw a group of men standing on the corner.
He did not, however, leave Oakvale without a promise to renew his visit during the summer vacation. Lucy, on her return home, found her little cousin evidently sinking fast. Her strength was almost exhausted, and she suffered a good deal from pain and restlessness; but scarcely a complaint ever escaped her lips.
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