Friendship and Folly

windows upon the two women who were still by the hearth. But Leander, when half awake, had been kind enough

dow, to the piazza, to the grounds. But Carolyn did not accompany her; she sat by the fire, sometimes shivering a

e renewe

oved I

earest, loveliest mo

ro!" Thus Mrs. Ffolliott, embracing her daughter when she came in from the pi

tack of hysteria as soon as she came into the breakfast-room, and it was Carolyn who led her back to her own chamber. It was Carolyn who organized what sea

again that she wished she had as little feeling as Caro, but then too muc

not be down to breakfast; she thought she must have taken cold, and she did not

" the elder woman exclaimed, as

t; it's only heroines who have brain fevers and

lingering, low fever, from which she began

ther told her that parts of the Vireo had been found and identified

oping any long

't hoped from the very

the girl's tone that her mother

d, was sitting in the s

re I had the strongest hope for several days. It seemed to me they

e a good swimme

n't see what happened t

n, wearily, "don't go

a perplexed voice; "I won't say anything. We h

she made an effort to restrain her words. She sank back again upon the seat. "

e to her daughter and ge

ld; "we won't talk about it." Then she added, as

mourn

time she laughed. At that laug

are not drowned,"

here ar

er where they are?

rol

toge

ger. When you are stronger, your mind will be

lay silently in her chair, gazing off to

sitting when Leander had found the ring that Prudence had given to Rodney;

he would not put on black be

y the people at Savin Hill. But they went nowhere, and saw only a very few friends; and as the season grew on towards wint

rfect days in November, the Indian summer. It was on one of these days that Mrs. Ffolliott entered the room where her daughter sa

paper, and the paper fluttered and rustled

urse other folks have seen it. And they wouldn't tell us. I call that unkind. I happened upon this paper in a waste-basket. It had never been unfolded. I don't kno

e paper beyond her daughter's reach, th

" said Carolyn,

put the paper on the girl's lap and pointe

Carolyn read, then she read ag

and the same date that

not thinking of g

up, a hard li

"It was a fine plan, wasn't it? No one could have ma

left her face. Her lips quivered as she said, "He always loved her; he neve

, "and I don't see how it's possible, eith

mam

you're going to defend

stop loving him because he doesn't love me. You see, mamma, I've got to

you had more spirit. Are you going to whine in this way? Why, I'll-I'll have you

s sitting motionless, with her

discovery, hardly knew what she did. She g

pride!" she

s staring straight in front of her mother, a nerveless dr

t wearing the willow, are you

ice echoed i

She turned indignantly to h

names I'll leave the h

She defends h

the

rol

also. By accident he met that-that-" her voice sharpened-"he met Prudence. She, of course, tempted him; she would tempt an angel from heaven. And he loved h

cried, with hysterical repetiti

girl again, "we w

say he's a scamp, and he shall

ee him again. And he won't be happy with her.

e. Her face at that moment had a look of such fervid loveliness tha

EE IT,' SA