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And father and mother how are we going to fix it with them?" In the midst of his splashing and scrubbing he heard Jeff and Justin come shouting in for supper and Charlotte hushing them and telling them the news. The next instant Jeff was upon him. "Say, but this is awful, Lanse! She was getting up a rattling good dinner, too been at it all day.
A man was coming with me if I'd let him, but I didn't care for his company so I slipped out. It was farther home than I thought," Lanse explained. "How long will this lay me up? I can go back to-morrow, can't I?" "Suppose we say the day after. That hammock on your front porch behind the vines strikes me as a restful place for you. A bit of vacation won't hurt you."
It was getting up a party in a hurry, but somehow the thing was accomplished. Whether Lanse remembered his own birthday at all was a question. When he came home at six o'clock on that day, Charlotte told him that she had special reasons for seeing him in his best. "Why, you're all dressed up yourself," he observed. "What's up?"
Everything's burnt up I can tell you that " "Celia is she's broken her knee!" "What?" "She fell down the cellar stairs and " "Where is she?" Lunch-pail and hat went down on the floor as Lanse got rid of them and seized Charlotte's arm. "Up in her room. Doctor Churchill's there. He's sent for Doctor Forester." "Churchill Forester," repeated Lanse, as if dazed. "Poor old girl is she much hurt?"
I'll run down and get some. I've hot rolls and honey for supper, and Lanse always wants peach pickles with that combination." Celia took a bowl from the cupboard, opened the cellar door and started down, turning on the second step to say: "Go and take a bath and put on a fresh frock; you won't feel half so tired. Wear the scarlet waist, will you?
"Well, that's not warranted in the face of the facts. Latest advices from New Mexico report improvement, even sooner than we could have expected. Then at home Lanse is conquering the situation in the locomotive shops very satisfactorily. Doctor Churchill told me yesterday that he's won the liking of nearly all the men in his shop which means more than a girl like you can guess.
You don't catch me swallowing algebra and German when I might be developing muscle. If Lanse puts on overalls I'm after him." Celia looked at her father. "What do you think of all this, sir?" she asked. "If I stay at home, dismiss Delia, and do the housework myself, and Lanse finds some suitable position, can't we get on? Charlotte can put off the school of design another year.
But before he could lift the receiver to his ear Charlotte had run into the room and was taking it from him, murmuring, "It's for me I'm sure it is." "Well, I could have called you," said Lanse, looking curiously at her as, with cheeks like poppies, she sat down at the desk and answered.
He choked, and turned away to the window. "You left a banana skin on those stairs?" Lanse half-shouted. "Yes." "Right there, at the top when Delia almost broke her neck more than once going down those stairs only last winter, just because they're so steep and narrow?" Just nodded. "And you fell on a banana skin once yourself, and wanted to thrash the fellow who left it!"
The performers did, indeed, show their pleasure by arriving early, flannel-shrouded instruments under their arms. Doctor Churchill came in just as they were tuning. Since Lanse had been away, Andy, who was something of a violinist had taken up Lanse's viola, and was now able to occupy his brother-in-law's place. Celia, however, had been chosen to fill the vacant rôle of leadership.
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