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Helen asked very minutely about Ruth's plans for going to Cheslow to recite, and the very first day of the next week, when the girl of the Red Mill started for town, who should overtake her within half a mile of the mill, but Helen and her governess going to Cheslow on a shopping errand, and drawn by Tubby, the pony. Of course, there was room for Ruth in the phaeton, and Helen and Mrs.
I was making for Cheslow. I'll get a job " "You wait here as you're told, boy," snapped Uncle Jabez, and the runaway shrank into his chair again and said nothing more. Breakfast at the Red Mill was always early; it had been finished before seven o'clock on this clear winter morning.
And Uncle Jabez or no other man need have been ashamed of the appearance of Ruth Fielding when the mules came around hitched to the heavy farm-wagon which Mr. Potter usually drove. It was piled high with bags of flour and meal, which he proposed to exchange at the Cheslow stores for such supplies as he might need. The load seemed heavier than usual this day.
Ruth's new trunk was at the Cheslow railroad station and in it was an adequate supply of such frocks and necessities as a girl of her age would need in the school to which she was bound. Her ticket was bought, too, and in her purse was a crisp ten-dollar note both purse and money being a special present from Uncle Jabez.
"Whoever it is that's hurt, or wherever he is, we cannot send him help from here. We'll report the circumstance at the Cheslow Station. Put the dog in the baggage car. He can find the place where his master is hurt, from Cheslow as well as from here, it's likely." "You try to make him follow you, Miss," added the conductor to Ruth. "He doesn't like me, it's plain." "Come here, Reno!"
But Chess, Ruth felt, had earned his vacation, while Tom remained a mere idler. Chess accompanied the Cheslow young people to the Grand Central Terminal when they left the dock and there bade Ruth good-bye. "I shall see you in a fortnight at the Thousand Islands," he assured her, and shook hands again. "I shall look forward to it, believe me!"
Few of the girls went home for Thanksgiving, and as Mercy was not to return to Cheslow then, the journey being considered too arduous for her, Ruth decided not to go either. There was quite a feast made by the school on Thanksgiving, and frost having set in a week before, skating on Triton Lake was in prospect.
Ruth was beside him before he could rise. "Don't you be such a ridiculous boy!" she commanded, seizing the lad by the shoulder, as he attempted to rise. "You mustn't run away. Mr. Cameron expects to find you at the mill, and you must stay. And they'll be here, ready to take the train from Cheslow, shortly." "I I don't want to stay here," stammered the boy. "I I don't want to see that man again."
She still had her career in mind. They got back to Cheslow early in July. And how glad Aunt Alvirah was to see her pretty. As for Uncle Jabez, his interest was in the commercial end of the picture Ruth had made. Was it going to make money when it was distributed? How much money had Ruth already drawn in advance royalties?
The entire five thousand dollars was deposited in Ruth's name in the Cheslow Savings Bank. And this happened in time so that Ruth could draw enough of her fortune to get a new gymnasium costume for the mid-winter exhibition! She did not have to use the money Uncle Jabez grudgingly gave her.
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