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She held up her head like a queen and turned her handsome white face full towards Jim Tenny and the girl for whom he had jilted her before, as they drove past, and bowed and smiled in a fashion which made the red flame up over the young man's swarthy cheek, and the pretty girl at his side shrink a little and avert her tousled fair head with a nervous giggle. Mrs.
Jim Tenny had all of a sudden shaken convulsively as if with mirth, but his face remained perfectly sober. That evening after the parlor door was closed upon Jim and Eva, Ellen wondered what they were laughing at.
Poor Eva Tenny had been in the asylum some four months, and the reports as to her condition were no more favorable. Ellen's voice, in spite of herself, had a hopeless tone, which the child was quick to detect. "I want my mamma," she repeated. "I want her, Ellen. It has been to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow after that, and the to-morrows are yesterdays, and she hasn't come."
He had a feeling that he was going to miss the youngster, with his cheerful optimism and dependable ways; but he felt that at the most a few weeks would see them together again. Fortunately for his peace of mind, he had not the least suspicion of the circumstances which were to bring about their next meeting. Buck took to Jim Tenny at once.
Tenny for years, had always had the most implicit confidence both in his ability and his honesty, and so, lightening up his duties in the Tientsin and Paotingfu Universities, he commissioned him to establish what may be termed the first public school system of education on modern lines in the whole empire.
What sort of a fellow is this Tenny, over at the Rocking-R?" "He's white," returned Bud promptly. "No squarer ranch-boss around the country. I'd of gone there instead of the Shoe-Bar, only they was full up. What was yuh thinkin' of bracin' him for a job?" "Not exactly, though I'd like Lynch to think I'd been taken on there.
"Well, it was a pretty young one," said the first girl. "Looks to me as if Eva Loud's skirt was comin' off," said the pretty girl. She pressed close to Jim Tenny with a familiar air of proprietorship as she spoke, but the young man did not seem to heed her. He was looking over his bench at the figure on the street below, and his heavy black eyebrows were scowling, and his mouth set.
Tenny to him and inquired particularly about the system of public school education throughout the United States. "What is to prevent our putting into operation such a system throughout this province?" asked the Viceroy. "Nothing," answered Dr. Tenny, "except to be willing to submit to the conditions." "And what are those conditions?" asked His Excellency.
Pretty soon Ellen saw a man's figure plodding through the fast-gathering snow, and heard her aunt Eva make a soft, heavy rush down the front stairs, and she knew the man was Jim Tenny, and her aunt had been watching for him. Ellen wondered why she had watched up in her cold room, why she had not sat down-stairs where it was warm, and let Jim ring the door-bell.
"Well, old man," said the new-comer, with a hoarse sound in his throat, "they needn't talk to us any more, need they?" "That's so," replied Andrew, but his joy in prosperity was not like the other man's. It placed him heights above him, although from the same cause. Prosperity means one thing to one man, and another to his brother. Presently they met Jim Tenny and Eva and Amabel.
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