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He tossed a penny to Syd as she left the room; and took the opportunity of binding his bargain with Syd's mother. "Mind! if I take you to New York, I'm not going to be burdened with both your children. Is that girl the one you leave behind you?" Mrs. Westerfield smiled sweetly, and answered: "Yes, dear." The Cipher.
I suppose we ought to be very proud of him, and we are, but then we are afraid for him at the same time. What a boy he is! See, he's hunted up our big flag and hung it from Syd's window in honor of your coming. You'll have to make a speech now." Rex come down to the gate to meet them. "I'm sorry that mother isn't home," he said.
"Good-night, boys, I shall be on hand for eight o'clock breakfast." He went out into the hall and up the stairs to the third floor, where Roy had already lighted the lamp for him in Syd's room. "An awfully nice fellow, isn't he, Roy?" remarked Rex, rolling the fragments of the clock up in an old newspaper. Roy did not make any reply.
The girls took the thing very quietly. "I am so glad on Syd's account," Eva said though more than once. "He has always worked so hard for us." Jess seemed dazed by the possibility of the new order of things, while Roy was disinclined to talk about it at all. Rex, however, made up for the apparent apathy of the others. At lunch he wanted to know when they were going to move.
Rex wanted to know. "If you and Roy weren't shaking in your boots too much to take aim you might bring him to a halt by pointing Syd's pistol at his head." "I suppose we could ask him to wait first till we ran up to Syd's bureau drawer and got it," retorted Rex with fine irony. "Mercy sakes!
"The boys had no business to pick up a stranger and bring him to the house in this way," Jess replied. "What do you suppose mother will say when we tell her?" "You needn't tell her," said Rex. "Needn't tell her!" exclaimed Jess. "When she finds half the silver gone and Syd's pistol missing I suppose we can say that the cat carried them off." "Well, I didn't pick the fellow up," affirmed Rex.
Their kind mamma forgives them when they are naughty, and buys ponies for them to ride on, and always has something nice for them to eat when they are hungry. Have you got a kind mamma, Lizzie? And are you very fond of her?" Those innocent allusions to the neglect which was the one sad experience of Syd's young life touched the servant's heart.
"You never did know, and you never will know, how to manage children." She advanced. The child threw herself shrieking on the floor. Miss Wigger's long arms caught her up held her shook her. "Be quiet, you imp!" It was needless to tell her to be quiet. Syd's little curly head sank on the schoolmistress's shoulder. She was carried into exile without a word or a cry she had fainted. The School.
I'm worried about Syd. There is something mighty queer about him." "Oh, he's much better to-night," Roy responded encouragingly. "Yes, I know; but it's his actions all through this thing that I'm worried about. Do you know that I sometimes think, Roy " here Rex sat up on the bed and lowered his voice impressively "I sometimes think that perhaps there was a touch of insanity in Syd's family.
"I don't suppose we could tell them without Syd's consent," he said when he and Roy had gone up stairs to get their coats. "But it'll seem exactly like dancing on our own graves." "Oh, not so bad as that, Reggie," returned Roy. The day was a terribly hard one to both boys. All sorts of plans were discussed and adopted for future good times.
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