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Updated: April 30, 2025
"What is the matter, Janice?" called 'Rill's low voice from the back. "Never mind! I can attend to this customer," Janice answered gaily. "It's Frank Bowman." Then she turned swiftly to the civil engineer again and whispered: "What is it about? Hopewell?" "Yes," he returned in the same low tone. "What is the matter with him?" demanded the girl greatly worried. "He's down at the Inn " "I know.
Three, four, five times he went bravely to the rill, drowned his thirst and called himself satisfied; but the second day was worse than the first; the craving seemed better than the rill's brief cure of it, and once he rose straight from drinking of the stream and climbed the dune to look for a sail. He strove in vain to labor. The pleasures of toil were as stale as those of idleness.
"Marty won't go to school no more," her aunt complained, whiningly. "'Rill Scattergood ain't got no way with him. Th' committee's been talkin' about gittin' another teacher for years; but 'Rill's sorter sot there, she's had the place so long." "There's more than a month of school yet before the summer vacation isn't there?" queried Janice. "Oh, yes," sighed Mrs. Day.
"Then what can it be that has caused the trouble?" "We cannot imagine," with a sigh. "It it is worrying Hopewell, night and day." "Poor man!" "He he is changed a great deal, Janice," whispered the bride. Janice was silent, but held 'Rill's hand in her own comforting clasp. "Don't think he isn't good to me. He is! He is! He is the sweetest tempered man that ever lived! You know that, yourself.
And I believe I shall give up teaching school. I'm really tired of it." Janice gladly accepted the invitation, and she bribed one of the youngsters with a nickel to run around to Hillside Avenue and tell Aunt Almira where she was. Miss 'Rill's boarding place was on the same side street where was located Hopewell Drugg's store.
'Rill's secret misgivings regarding Hopewell Drugg, little Lottie's peril of blindness, the general tendency of Polktown as a whole to suffer the bad effects of liquor selling at the tavern all these things had added to Janice's anxiety. Now, on the crest of the threatening wave, rode this happening to Nelson Haley, an account of which Marty had brought home.
With Janice on one side to spur him, and Miss 'Rill's unbounded faith in him on the other hand, how could Hopewell Drugg fall back into the old aimless existence which had cursed him when first Janice had taken an interest in his little Lottie, his store, and himself? But, of course, Hopewell could not make trade.
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