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Yet he did not know that in this puerile phantom and painted pigmy the awful majesty of Death had passed him by. "Mamma!" It was Susy's voice, struggling into consciousness. Perhaps she had been instinctively conscious of the boy's sudden fears. "Hush!" He had just turned to the objective point of the Indian's gaze. There WAS something! A dark line was moving along with the gathering darkness.
Nothing now was substantial to him but the stones of the street in which he stood, the front of the house which hid her, the bell-handle he already felt in his grasp. He started forward, and was halfway to the threshold when a private motor turned the corner, the twin glitter of its lamps carpeting the wet street with gold to Susy's door.
Dick looked appealingly at the neighbours and muttered, "I I can't carry her my hands " "Bless me, there's work for the doctor here," said one of the women in consternation, as she looked at his poor scorched fingers. "Depend upon 't, Mrs. Fowley, he's saved your Susy's life. Best not talk about hidings." "What's the matter here?" cried a brisk voice at the door, as the old doctor entered.
"Dudley Venner!" exclaimed a dozen people, in startled, but half-suppressed tones. "What can have brought Dudley out to-night?" said Jefferson Buck, a young fellow, who had been interrupted in one of the corner-duets which he was executing in concert with Miss Susy Pettingill. "How do I know, Jeff?" was Miss Susy's answer. Then, after a pause, "Elsie made him come, I guess. Go ask Dr.
So she never gave me a hint of anything, and she even managed to muzzle Susy Suffern you know Susy is the one of the family who keeps me informed about things at home. I don't yet see how she prevented Susy's telling me; but she did.
While Custard, regarding it as a game gotten up for his especial benefit, urged them on, barking and leaping about them, taking little pretend nips at the seven sets of bare toes, choosing Susy's the oftenest, because she always squealed the loudest. At last the seven dropped down breathless in the middle of the meadow. Patricia felt of Susy's skirts anxiously.
My darling, my darling!" Poor Susy's first thought was to call out to Prudy, but her mother gave her one warning glance, and that was enough: Susy neither spoke nor stirred. Mrs. Parlin stood looking up at her stood as white and still as if she had been frozen! Her trembling lips moved a little, but it was in prayer; she knew that only God could save the precious one.
Let's start, and choose our victim on the way," Strefford suggested. Susy ran to her room for a light cloak, and without changing her high-heeled satin slippers went out with the four men. There was no moon thank heaven there was no moon! but the stars hung over them as close as fruit, and secret fragrances dropped on them from garden-walls. Susy's heart tightened with memories of Como.
Franklin Ide had seated himself in the arm-chair she had pushed forward for him under the electric chandelier. He threw back his head and laughed. "What did I tell you?" "Yes; but I can't believe that Susy's not mistaken. Poor dear, she has the habit of lost causes; and she may feel that, having stuck to me, she can do no less than stick to Leila."
Parlin kept saying it was high time for her eldest daughter to begin to be womanly, and do long stints with her needle: she could not sew as well now as she sewed two years ago. But Mr. Parlin laughed at his wife's anxiety, and said he loved Susy's red cheeks; he didn't care if she grew as brown as an Indian.
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