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"H'm! got an awful bunch of work to do, fellows, this morning, as well as hold the editorial desk down for Mr. Hanks; but perhaps the sooner we get that little job over with the better. Yes, I'll call Philip, our boy here, who's rubbing the ink off his face and hands, and we'll all start out to finish Brother Lu's career in Scranton." It was in this confident mood that they made their start.
She wrapped her fleecy shawl once more about her shoulders, and tying a dainty hat which Chi Lu's skillful fingers had woven from mountain grasses, and her own fair hands had trimmed upon her pretty brown head, they sauntered forth. The sun had gone down, but the western sky was all ablaze with crimson and orange, which gradually faded into soft purple and deeper blue in the upper sky.
He did not seem to feel that anything was wrong. "Oh, my dears, Aunt Lu's train won't be in for some time two or three hours," said Mrs. Brown. "And you know I've told you never to go down to the station alone." "Couldn't you come with us?" asked Sue, eating a few of the cake crumbs. "Or maybe papa," added Bunny. "If he can't Bunker can. Bunker knows the way to the station."
"Well, then, you ought to have them. What do you want them for, Yone?" "Oh, if Lu's going to have them, I don't want them." "But give a reason, child." "Why, to wear, too, to look at, to have and to hold for better, for worse, to say my prayers on," for a bright idea struck me, "to say my prayers on, like the Florence rosary." I knew that would finish the thing.
You have fought the battle with me, you have prayed much for me, you have often felt sad and anxious about me, but now you can be at rest. It is God Himself who has made me take this step, who was too strong for me, and there is no turning back." That was Mrs. Lü's story. What joy it brought to us as we stood and listened to that testimony.
By this time the "candy-man" stood smiling beside the strawberry-woman. As he was counting out the fip's worth of candy, the child spoke up in an earnest voice, and said: "Get a levy's worth, mother, do, wont you? Cousin Lu's coming to see us to-morrow." "Let him have a levy's worth, candy-man. He's such a rogue I can't resist him," responded the mother.
"I should like to have you, Chi," she said, thoughtfully, "but I am afraid it would be hardly fair to you, for I haven't a great deal of money, and I shall have to be very economical." Chi Lu's little round black eyes flashed at this. "<i>He</i> takee monee too?" he demanded, with contemptuous emphasis on the pronoun. Virgie flushed.
Having Marshal Hastings come away up here after him will upset all Brother Lu's plans for a soft berth during the remainder of his fast-ebbing life; and he may suddenly determine that it's better to run away and live to eat another day, than to try and stick it out here, and be landed in a Texas jail." "It'll seem an awful long time till tomorrow comes," sighed the impatient Thad.
He did not even make an effort to see her afterwards and next Sunday Jake's and Lu's banns were called in meeting. Abe had been drunk pretty much all the time since, lying about the tavern floor.
"Oh, look! look!" fairly shouted the little fellow. "It's Aunt Lu's diamond ring. It was in the lobster claw, and it came out when the claw broke. Oh, Aunt Lu! I've found your diamond ring!" Aunt Lu fairly rushed over to Bunny. She took from his hand the shiny, glittering thing he had picked up from the barn floor. "Yes, it IS my lost diamond ring!" she cried. "Oh, where was it?"
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