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Onoye and her mother are mad about him, and and " went on Billie, slowly working out the complication in her mind "they were the ones who laid the blame on Nancy, weren't they?" "I didn't know I had a detective for a daughter," said Mr. Campbell, smiling. "I'm just putting two and two together," said Billie. "You see it works out like a jigsaw puzzle." "So I see," said Mr. Campbell gravely.
The girls were consumed with the giggles and Miss Campbell was scarcely able to maintain a serious expression. "No, no!" she would say each time, "Onoye! Wish Onoye!" At last O'Haru appeared once more. "August one, much kindness bestow. O'Haru make sewing." "Where is Onoye? Where is your daughter?" demanded Miss Campbell. O'Haru on her knees hung her head humbly.
"We should be most pleased and happy, I am sure," answered Billie, feeling that she must not be outdone in lofty expression, "But what excellent English you speak. Do you live here, too?" Onoye looked up and her face brightened. "I make studying of American language one time," she said. "And are we to have tea now?" asked Nancy as the Japanese girl backed out of the room.
All money gone nothing." At the conclusion of this sad story told mostly by expressive gestures and queerly chosen words, Onoye smiled sweetly. That is the only polite thing for a well brought up Japanese girl to do even when her own misfortunes are the subject of the conversation. "What a shame," Billie exclaimed sympathetically.
"The little maids are as timid as wild things." "But every servant in the house is in the dining room, I tell you. I saw them as I went down the hall, and I counted them just for fun. There were the four little maids and Onoye and O'Haru and Komatsu and the three jinriksha men and the three old grandmothers and the gardener. There aren't any others."
"And, Papa," went on Billie, "I believe that our little maid, Onoye, was his wife, and when her father lost his money, Yoritomo got a divorce, and she and her mother were so poor they had to go to work." Mr. Campbell was even more shocked at this disclosure. "And, Papa, I believe she would do most any favor for Yoritomo in order to get to see her little boy who lives with Mme. Ito.
"Now a synonym of 'to warn' is 'to summon. Maybe Onoye wanted to tell you that some one wished to see you." Nancy was silent. She vaguely connected Onoye's visit with Mme. Fontaine and the note, because her thoughts constantly dwelt on those disquieting subjects.
Billie endeavored to throw off her depression by giving Onoye lessons in English in exchange for lessons in Japanese, and in the course of these lessons she learned a little of Onoye's history. O'Haru had been obliged to go to work after the death of her husband who had lost all his property in a fire. Onoye's only brother had been killed in great "bat-tel." The family had had "muchly unfortune.
Her face looked wan and sad and it seemed to the Motor Maids that Miss Campbell might not have been so severe; but as a housekeeper, that small, gentle lady was a disciplinarian. They waited with some curiosity for Onoye to appear. In five minutes O'Sudzu, one of the other maids, stood framed in the doorway like a Japanese souvenir post card life size. She bowed low and entered the room timidly.
To Miss Campbell, a seasoned housekeeper, this reply seemed a little irregular. "What kind of business, O'Haru?" she demanded rather severely. O'Haru looked amiably sad. It is true that Onoye was on the pay roll of the household servants, but then, did not her mother do work for two when Onoye was not actively engaged?
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