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s friends at Cobble; then he had to drive back to Wayside to appease a distraught manager and half a dozen angry guides and also to pack his belongings; for the Allans would not let him stay anywhere

might, before the day passed, get better

active young woman, who was accustomed to many congenial friends about her, had been wondering, deep in her heart, if she was not going to

he's so confoundedly natural! There's a freshness about her that's

l that ever breathed. There's an atmosphere in that house that is different, upon my word--makes one think of the old stories of kings and queens who disguised themselves as peasants--simple meal, everything sort of shabby but you couldn't give all that a thought, there was such a feeling of peace and happiness everywhere." John Westley actually had to stop for breath. But he was too eager and too much in earnest to mind the glint of amusement in Mrs. Allan's eyes. "When I went to bed didn't that big, amber-eyed cat of Jerry's follow me upstairs and into the room and stretch herself acr

n such places as Sunnyside little conventional restraints were unknown and in a very few moments the two women were chatting like old friends while Dr. Travis was explaining in his drawling voice the advantages of certain theories of p

e, John Westley demanded: "Honestly, Pen Allan, doesn't it s

happy family who know a little more than most of us about what's really worth while in this world. Now tell me about your own nieces--Isobel, and that madcap Gyp, and little Tib." She

more vain each day and Gyp more heedless, and Tibby's going to spoil her digestion if her mother does

in among those girls! He mu

hem here with me! I wanted to bring them along but Dr. Hewitt said it'd be the

o take the responsibility of your

think their mother sort of depends on me. Sometimes I get a little bothered--they're having the very best schooling and all the things money ca

le schoolmaster," laughe

to take an active interest in the school, too. The doctor says I must have a 'diversity' of interests to offset the strain of making cement-mixers and I think to rub up against two hundred b

e use to himself because he had been a crusty old bachelor who hated to have anyone near him. Gossip had said that he had built it just because he wanted his house to cost more tha

etting just what's threatening Isobel and Gyp--a sort of

dertaken the care of her own niece, Patricia Everett. "It's so--vivid! A masquerade make-up, too big and too long, and then when you peep under th

loved--then suddenly it veered to the little girl he had found on the Wishing-rock, he

d, just as the Fly-by-day bounced into