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Raymond, going into Gracie's room to fulfil his promise to give her a good night kiss, found Lulu there also; the two lying clasped in each other's arms. "We thought we'd sleep together to-night, papa," said Lulu, "if you're willing." "I have no objection," he answered.
"Yes; and for every week that either one of you earns the quarter every day, I will add another to bring it up to two dollars." "O papa, how nice!" exclaimed Lulu. "I mean to try very hard, so that I may have enough to support a little Indian girl. And is Gracie to have the same?" "Certainly; and I shall not be greatly surprised if Gracie's missionary box fills faster than either of the others."
The lan' 's his lordship's bought and paid for, an' I hae no more richt ower 't nor Jeames Gracie's colley here, puir beast!" "Ye may be richt aboot the lan', laird, the mair's the pity!" answered Grizzie; "but the futpath, beggin' the pardon o' baith lairdship and lordship, belangs to me as muckle as to aither o' ye.
There's a room at my boarding-house, and only one old lady besides myself, who knits all the time. If Grace can get shifted we'll find a house, and you can have the baby. They'll send your luggage on from Paddington if you write; and in the meantime Gracie's got some things here that you can have." "I'll have to send a wire to Daddy." "I'll do that.
Max looked pleased, though slightly puzzled, too; Gracie's eyes shone, and the pink flush deepened on her cheeks, as she asked delightedly, "Is it a baby? Mamma's baby?" but Lulu frowned and was silent. "Yes, it is your mamma's baby," replied Grandma Rose. "Would you like to go home and see it?"
He took Gracie's hand again, and led them to a small, detached building, only a few yards distant, a one-story frame, so prettily designed that it was quite an ornament to the grounds. The children exclaimed in surprise; for, though it had been there on their former visit to Woodburn, it was so greatly changed that they failed to recognize it. "It wasn't here before, papa, was it?" asked Grace.
The house-physician said that Gracie's hold upon life was a mystery and a miracle; by all the laws she should have been gone some months since. She had certainly taken her time about dying! Her little, sharp, immature face had lost all earthliness; only the eyes were alive. They looked at Vandervelde gratefully. He had been very kind, and Gracie was trying to thank him. "Good-by," said Gracie.
Gracie's next words were humbling to her: "Miss Wilbur, will you forgive me? I didn't mean to annoy you. I don't know what has been the matter with me." But, long before this, the last laggard had finished her line, and was staring in undisguised astonishment at the scene enacted on the platform. Marion rallied her excited thoughts. "Dear child," she said, "we have each something to forgive.
He hardly thought, he said, that his lordship would like to have to restore it; for, besides the expense, it would cost him so much out of one of his best fields. In the meantime they must contrive how to connect themselves with that part of the road which he dared not touch. The worst of it was that there was no longer any direct communication across the fields with James Gracie's cottage.
"Dear child!" he said in moved tones and clasping her close, "you have a very strong and unselfish love for me." "Papa, it would have broken my heart, and Mamma Vi's, and Max's and Gracie's too, if anything dreadful had happened to you." "And what about papa's heart if he should lose his dear little daughter Lulu, or anything dreadful should happen to her?"
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