United States or Qatar ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The day's doings passed in a not unpleasant procession through her mind. It seemed a week yes! a month since she had left the Red Mill that morning. She again went over the pleasant road with the Camerons and Mrs. Murchiston to Cheslow. She remembered their conversation with good Dr.
"I guess we're all equally scared Mrs. Murchiston and all." "Nobody will go " "I'm going!" declared Ruth, firmly. "If the panther is coming from that woman's house the woman who telephoned then the pond is in the very opposite direction. I'll take Tom's rifle and some cartridges." "But you don't know how to shoot!" cried Helen. "We ought to know.
Mrs. Murchiston won't let us have any freedom," said Belle. "She's on the watch." "I expect she would object if we tried anything very 'brash," said Heavy. "We have got to be sly about it." "I do not know how much at fault Tom and Mr. Steele are," said Ruth, quietly. "But so much has happened since they spoiled the candy, that I had all but forgotten the trick." "There now!
She shrugged herself into the former, pulled the other down upon her ears, and catching up the loaded gun ran out of the kitchen just before Mrs. Murchiston, who had suddenly suspected what she was about, came to forbid the venture. Ruth, however, was out of the house and winging her way down the cleared path toward the pond, before the governess could call to her. "Oh, she will be killed, Mrs.
Her friends would worry about her all night if she did not find some way of allaying their anxiety. "Oh, Mary!" she said to the maid. "Where's the telephone? Tom said there was telephone connection here." "So there is, Miss," returned the maid. "And somebody had better tell Mrs. Murchiston that you're safe.
They proposed to pick Tom up at Seven Oaks Military Academy, for he would spend another year at that school, not graduating until the following June. They also had another guest in the big automobile who took up a deal of the attention of the drygoods merchant and Mrs. Murchiston. A two-days' trip was made of it, the party staying at a hotel for the night.
Murchiston and the girls were greatly worried over Ruth's absence and the absence, too, of the three boys. But the death of the catamount, and the safety of all, quickly put a better face upon the situation. Ruth was praised a good bit for her bravery. And Mr. Cameron said: "There's something in that poor boy whom we tried to return to his friends if the Hatfields are his friends.
Murchiston, who had been the governess of the Cameron twins since their babyhood, and was now to remain in the great house "Outlook" Mr. Macy Cameron's home, as housekeeper, while his son and daughter were away at school.
It's mad with hunger and it will do some dreadful damage if it is not killed." Ruth repeated this to her friends, and asked Mrs. Murchiston what they should do. "If the baste comes here," cried Mary, the maid, "he can jump right into these low winders. We'll be clawed to pieces." "There are heavy shutters for these windows," Mrs. Murchiston said, faintly.
Sound our battle-cry Near and far! S.B. All! Briarwood Hall! Sweetbriars, do or die This be our battle-cry Briarwood Hall! That's all!" Mr. Cameron, Helen's father, and Mrs. Murchiston, who had acted as governess for the twins until they were old enough to go to boarding school, were motoring to Briarwood Hall for the graduation exercises.
Word Of The Day