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Updated: June 22, 2025
And Thaine's opportunity for learning his greatest lesson came hurrying toward him from out of the Unknown. This notorious Boxer uprising, gone now into military annals, had reached the high tide of its power. Beginning in the southern province of China, it spread northward, menacing the entire Empire.
She had danced often and she had waited for Thaine's homecoming. Yet, when she came downstairs in a white morning dress all sprinkled with little pink sprays, there was hardly a hint of weariness in her young face or in her quick footsteps. "I'm glad you stayed, Jo," Mrs. Aydelot greeted her.
"And if papa's defeated we stay home all winter, eh?" Todd questioned. "That all depends," Jo replied. "Of course it does. What is it, and who depends on it? Jo, I'll help you if you must defend yourself." Thaine Aydelot bounced down from the rocky bank above into the midst of the company and became at once Jo's escort by common consent. "Now life's worth living, Thaine's here.
It was not the usual bantering tone now, and there was something in the expression of Thaine's handsome face; something looking out from his dark eyes that Leigh did not see, because she was looking out at the lights and shadows of evening. The sunset's afterglow had thrown a splendor far up the sky.
I wondered at the test of my endurance then. I know now it was to prepare me for Thaine's time of service for his country." "I done remember, all right, 'bout that time in ol' Virginia, an' the day I taken you the letteh up in the little glen behind the ol' mansion house whah hit wah so cool and the watah's so cleah. Misteh Horace wah home that day, too.
Tonight the Aydelots were to give a party in honor of Thaine's birthday, and the farmhouse was dressed for the occasion. Thaine had been busy all day carrying furniture in or out, mowing the front lawn where the old double fireguard once lay, and fixing a seat under the white honeysuckle trellis, "for the afflicted ones," he declared to pretty Jo Bennington. Jo's blush was becoming.
And nothing in the languorous beauty of the midsummer afternoon could have been quite so pleasing without her presence there. She looked down at Thaine's big brown hand resting against her white arm, and then up to his handsome face. "It would only make trouble for, for everybody. No, I'm coming home with the crowd on the hayrack."
The trouble is sometimes in the pattern we hang up before us and sometimes in the careless weaving," Dr. Carey added. They rode a while in silence. The doctor's cheek was against Thaine's dark hair and Asher looked down at his hard brown hands and then away at the autumn prairie.
"Homesick!" was his mental diagnosis, but he answered with equal carelessness. "Yes, I had a letter from Leigh Shirley." Thaine's eyes were too full of unspeakable things now for him to hold out. "She says the alfalfa is doing well. She and Jim have kept up all the interest, and are beginning to reduce the principal. That's why she wrote." "Brave little soldier," Thaine muttered.
"What's the next case on docket, Leigh?" Thaine asked, dropping Jo's arm. Jealousy has sharp eyes, but even jealousy could hardly have found fault with the friendly and indifferent look on Thaine's face. "Why, it's my first with you, Leigh. Who's your partner, Jo?" Thaine continued. Two or three young men claimed the honor, and the music began. "Mrs.
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