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Willie saw a good deal of Mona Shepherd also, who had long been set free from the oppressive charge of Janet, and was now under the care of a governess, a wise, elderly lady; and as she was a great friend of Mrs Macmichael, the two families were even more together now than they had been in former years.
'I dinna suppose she wud ha'e treated ye excep' she had mair money nor brains. 'She wud pairt wi' her last farden for ma sake! 'Ach, awa' an' eat grass! It's weel seen that men are scarce the noo. 'Mind wha ye're insultin'! 'I'm gaun up to the billet. Macgregor said, shortly, and walked off. Presently, Willie, a new idea in his busy brain, overtook him.
That she would receive sympathy from Emily there could be no doubt; but as she loved her benefactress, did she shrink from any disclosure which was calculated to lessen Willie Sullivan in the estimation of one in whose opinion she was anxious that he should sustain the high place to which her own praises had exalted him.
In the same way, although it would have been absurd in Willie to rack his brain for some scheme by which to restore such a grand building as the Priory, he could yet bethink himself that the hundredth room did not come next the first, neither did the third; the one after the first was the second, and he might do something towards the existence of that.
"Why are men the unreliable sex, Mr. Canning?" said she, laughing. "Here Willie begs us for days to visit him at his rooms I believe he thinks there's something rather gay and wicked about it, you know, though mamma picked them out for him! and assures us on his honor as a banker that he is in every afternoon by five at the very latest. So we inconvenience ourselves and come. And now look!"
From the outside the bandits no doubt used the same method that the Pony Rider Boys had used to gain an entrance. "Keep clear of the opening and don't shoot until we're all ready. One volley will be enough, then back and trip the jack. All ready!" The men began creeping out, Willie Jones in the lead. "Now!" whispered Tad. "Follow me! Look out for squalls!
He was in no mood to read or to enjoy; but, nevertheless, tore open the cover, finding within it a double letter. Taking the envelope of one from the folds of the other, his eye fell first upon his mother's writing; a short note and a puzzling one. "My dear Willie: "I have tried to write you a letter, but cannot. I never wounded you if I could avoid it, and I do not wish to begin now.
It is a gold hunting-case watch with a Swiss movement; loses five minutes a day; stem-winder; and the back cover, which does not bear any inscription, has upon it the indentations made by the molars of your son Willie when that interesting youth was cutting his teeth upon it." "Wonderful!" cried Johnson. "May I ask how you knew all that?" asked Solomon, deeply impressed.
Of course, that would be shortened to "Will" or enfeebled to "Willie" but wait! A second son came and was christened Willard. "Aha!" chuckled Mr. Williams, "Now everybody will have to speak the full names of each of these boys in order to distinguish them." In pursuance of this scheme the next three sons were named Wilbert, Wilfred, and Wilmont. They are all big boys now.
Only Willie was never stinted nor hindered of anything that the two women thought could give him pleasure, for want of money.
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