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Cameron's and you'll be welcome there. "Our mother is dead. We talk of her a good deal, just as though she were living and had gone on a little journey somewhere, and we should see her again soon. God took her when Tom and I were only a few weeks old; but Daddy has made himself our playfellow and dear, dear friend; and there has always been Nurse Babette and Mrs. Murchiston at least, Mrs.
Everybody treats me just as they always have; but even Colonel Post takes off his hat to our Helen on the street with overpowering politeness, and the other men speak to her as though she were as old as Mrs. Murchiston. It gets me!" Mr. Cameron laughed; but he sighed thereafter, too. "Our little Helen is growing up, I expect.
Murchiston has been with us since we can remember. But what Daddy says is law, and he said this morning that he'd like to have a girl like you come to our house to be company for me. It gets lonely for me sometimes, you see, for Tom doesn't want to play with girls much, now he is so big. Perhaps next fall I'll go away to boarding school won't that be fun?"
None of the girls was seriously injured by the adventure in the snow; but the doctor shook his head over Hatfield. Mrs. Murchiston gave the youth good attention, however, and the doctor promised to come again as soon as a horse could get through the roads. Two days passed before anybody got to Snow Camp saving on snowshoes.
He is doubtless engaged upon a history of the Mound Builders of Peoria County, Illinois; or upon a pamphlet suggested by the finding of a fossilized man in the caves of Arizona." "Is he a great writer, Mrs. Murchiston?" asked Ruth, wonderingly. "He has written a great many histories if that constitutes being a great writer," replied the governess, with a quiet smile. "But if it was not for Mrs.
"I don't think Sam Curtis is any too well fixed," said Tom, shaking his head. "And Mercy's long illness has been a great expense to them. Hello! here we are at the station, with plenty of time to spare." Mrs. Murchiston was not going with them; the trio of young folk were to travel alone, so Tom took the tickets, got the trunk checks, and otherwise played escort to the two girls.
Do you hear me?" "Oh, I hear you!" cried Ruth, and then held her hand over the mouthpiece and spoke to the other girls: "That panther that catamount!" she cried. "It is supposed to be coming this way. Where is your father, Helen? And Long Jerry Todd?" The excited screaming of the other girls brought Mrs. Murchiston to the hall in a hurry.
The little children showing her that they liked her so well, could not fail to be a lasting pleasure to Ruth. And Helen and Tom, with their governess, Mrs. Murchiston, attended the exercises, and Helen sat with Ruth. "And we're going to take you home; the carriage will come for us," Helen whispered in her ear. "No," Ruth said, shaking her head, "I cannot go home with you. You know, Uncle "
I I beg pardon," she stammered. "Uncle Bill is all right." "And Jennie Stone's Aunt Kate has been writing me about you, too. It seems she was much interested in you when you visited their place at Lighthouse Point." "She's very kind," murmured the new girl. "And Mrs. Murchiston, Helen's governess, has spoken a good word for you," added the preceptress.
Murchiston was a very pleasant lady, and Helen and Tom evidently thought a good deal of her. "I should have been glad to have you for Helen's playmate this summer, my dear," said the governess to Ruth. "And I wish you were fortunate enough to be able to go with Helen this fall. You have just the characteristics in your nature to balance dear Helen's impetuosity."
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