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We split two days ago, and I made tracks for the old diggings; got down as far as Tarbury under a tarpaulin in a goods train there's some sense in a goods train and then lay close by a weir of the canal, and got aboard a barge after dark. Nothing breaks a scent like a barge. And it went the right way for my business too, and travelled all night.
Luncheon was properly over, but the girls were still gossiping over their tea. Flies buzzed in the sunny window, and the rumpled tablecloth was covered with crumbs. Mrs. Tarbury kissed Mrs. "You know you're getting to be the handsomest thing that ever lived, Ju!" said one of these. Julia smiled without raising her eyes from the knives and forks with which she was absently playing.
"No, this isn't anything like that, dearie," explained Mrs. Tarbury. "There's going to be a big amachure show for charity at the Grand next month, and they want a few professionals in it, to buck up the others. All the swells are going to be in it it's going to be something elegant! Of course they'd pay something, and it'd be a lot of fun for you!
"Well, of course we'll pay " George was beginning, somewhat haughtily, but Emeline, who had grown rather red, interrupted: "It don't make the slightest difference," she said, with spirit. "I guess I'm the last woman in the world to want my child to stay where she isn't welcome!" "It ain't that at all, Em," Mrs. Tarbury threw in pacifically, but Emeline was well launched now.
Cloke and I a whole page when first we came to this country, and we had elegant bookings elegant. I'd my little flat in New York all furnished, and," she said to Mrs. Tarbury, "I was used to EVERYTHING the managers at home all knew me, and all, you know " She laughed with some bitterness. "It does seem funny to be out here doing this," she added.
Tarbury began in a low voice rich with feeling, but Julia took a hand. "Don't be such a fool, Aunt Min!" she said, going over to sit on an arm of Mrs. Tarbury's chair, and putting a caressing arm about her shoulders. "And cut it out, Mama! Aunt Min's been kinder to me than any one else, and you know it and I've felt pretty darn mean living here day after day!
She had come so far from the days that united her childhood with all the Rosenthals she had not seen Mrs. Tarbury, nor Rose, nor Connie for years. She was climbing, climbing, away from all those old associations. And she could climb faster alone!
Artheris wants you to do it, and it wouldn't hurt you none to have him on your side, Julia. I promised I'd talk to you." "One performance?" Julia asked. "What play?" "I'd do it in a minute," said the stout actress from Portland, whose dance had been so gratifying a success, "but I'm signed up." "One night, dear," Mrs. Tarbury said. "I don't think they've decided on the play."
And now I say if Aunt Min has a chance to rent her room " "God knows you're welcome to that room as long as you'll stay, Julie," Mrs. Tarbury said tremulously; "it's only " "If every one was as good to me as you are, Aunt Min!" Julia said, beginning to cry. Mrs. Tarbury burst into sobs, and they clung together. "I never meant that you wasn't awfully good to her, Min," Emeline said stiffly.
"My God, Em, you'll die!" Mrs. Tarbury said frankly. "Why'n't you go somewhere where there's something doing?" "My sporting days are over, Min," George said with mournful satisfaction. "No more midnight suppers in mine!" "Nor mine, either. I guess I'm old enough to settle down," Emeline added cheerfully. She and Mrs.
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