In the High Valley / Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series

d proposed to Dorry that their wedding should be deferred till the others were ready to be married also,-a suggestion to which Dorry would not listen for a moment. There were long business-talks b

r unfeigned and flattering joy over the whole arrangement. It made matters so delightfully easy all round to have Imogen engaged to Dorry,

out his half promise of leaving Burnet and coming to live with them in the Valley. They waited anxiously for hi

all four! Gene

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heart. Her sisters had to comfort her with

an, or a man with an orange plantation in Florida. He'll see that it's all for the best as soon as he gets out here, and he must

On the very eve of the departure came a second telegram. Telegrams were not every-day things in the High Valley, the neare

from Dr. Carr. It was

Miss Inches died to-day of

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, had been warm friends always; they corresponded regularly; Johnnie had made her several long v

of my plans, and she would have been so pleased and interested. She always cared so much for what I cared about, and I hope

l as metaphorical, for the first snow-storm was drifting over the plain as they drove down the pass, the melting flakes instantly drunk up by the sand; all the soft

arts and hopes. Before long John's letters grew cheerful again,

elp in our plans. She just did it because she loved me. 'To Joanna Inches Carr, my namesake and child by affection,' the will says; and I think it pleases me as much as having the money. That frightens me a little, it seems so much. At first I did not like to take it, and felt as if I might be robbing some one else; but papa says that she had no very near relations, and that I need not hesitate. O

nd the furniture too, except the books and a few special things which papa wishes to keep. He is going to write to you about the building of what he is pleased to call 'a separate shanty;' but please don't let the shanty be really separate; he must be in with all of us somehow, or we shall never be satisfied. Did Lionel decide to move the Hutlet? Of course Katy will spend her year in the Valley instead of Burnet. I am be

little later. Both the weddings she pr

just consider what a picturesque and romantic place the Valley is for a wedding, with the added advantage that you would be absolutely the first people who were ever married in it since the creation of the world! I won't say what may happen in the remote future, for Rose Red writes that she is going to change its name and call it henceforward

a; for we are quite decided that he is to take his meals with us and not have the bother of independent housekeeping. Then if you decide to put your bungalow on the other side of his, as we hope you will, we shall all be

yet attain to the dignity of a 'resident pastor' as well, for Geoff has decided not to move the Hutlet, but leave it as it is, putting in a little simple furniture, and offer it from time to time to some invalid clergyman who needs Colorado air and would be glad to spend a few months in the Valley. Who knows but it may

eddings. Now Johnnie darling, write at once and say that you agree to this plan. It really does seem a perfect one for

no need to complain of being unsistered, for Katy was a host in herself, and gave all her time to helping everybody. She sewed and finished, she packed and advised, she assisted to box her father's books, and went with Dorry to choose the new papers and rugs which were to make the old house freshly bright for Imogen; she exclaimed and rej

degroom; and Geoff had come, and Clover, to meet her father and Katy, and Phil was also in waiting. It was truly a wonderful moment when the train drew up, and John

th the increase of population, as he says. I think, Geoff, we will put the brides and bridegrooms together in the new one. Then the 'echoes'

nged, and the

her in, "I had forgotten quite how dear you are! It seems to me that you

, with a laugh. "No one but Ned was ev

me that he can't be here,-the o

Naval orders are like time and tide, and wait for no man, and most of all for no woman." She paused a moment, and ch

te that you

den a blaze of flowers, and all the pretty country about so green and sweet! Rose was most delig

ve been rathe

meet her again. She isn't as bad as we made her out. Sc

mind, but really I can't stand having you so horridly charitable. 'There is no virtue, madam, in a mush of concession.' M

ten days, and she was better than usual, it seem

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wn to the satin shoes, and the fan and the long gloves, and a turquoise necklace, and turquoise pins for her hair. You never saw anything so charming as the way in which she enjoyed

he is embodied sympathy," said Clover. "Now, Katy, I wa

wly climbed the zigzag pass. With every turn and winding Katy's pleasure grew; and when they rounded the last curve, and came in sight of

Sheba remarked! Oh, and there is Elsie on the porch, and that thing in white beside her is Phillida! I never dreamed

be able to see her every day and all day long, and consult and advise and lay before her the hopes and intentions and desires of her heart, whi

him. The children soon learned to adore him, as children always had done; the only trouble was that they fought for the possession of his knee, and would never willingly have left him a moment for himself. His leisure had to be protected by a series of n

as performed by a clergyman from Portland, who with his invalid wife were settled in the Hutlet for the summer, very glad of the pleasant little home offered them, and to escape from the crowd and confusion of Mrs. Marsh's boarding-house, where Geoff had found them. Two or three particular friends drove out from St. Helen's;

of true feeling. Imogen and Johnnie had both agreed to wear white muslin dresses, very much such dresses as they were all accustomed to wear on afternoons; but Imogen had on her head her mother's wedding-veil, which had been sent out f

ay to put on her pretty travelling-suit of pale brown, and the carry-all came round to take M

ch to see them go. Imogen's last

as Isabel does, and I am so glad that I do! Dear Clover, you have

ife now, and our own dear sister. There is no qu

fter her; the wheels revolved; and Phil, seizing a horseshoe which hung re

observed. "Well, the Carr family are certainly pretty well disposed of now. I am 'th

"I don't consider you fairly expanded yet, by any means. Y

! That would never do! And Amy Ashe, whom I have had in my eye eve

seventeen yet; and I don't think her mother has any i

ll look so contented and so satisfied with yourselves and one another, that it's enough to madden

t guest had gone. Geoff touched a match to the ready-laid fire; Clover wheeled an armchair forward for he

e us afraid; and, please Heaven, there is a whole, long, happy year before us! I never did suppose anything so perf

troking his hair. Dr. Carr held out his hand to Johnnie, who ran across the

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