Dorothy at Skyrie

ying his wife and daughter thither, in answer to that astounding "summons." That the document was legal and not

p will any of us take toward that shop-office! A pretty justice of the peace a blacksmith must be, anyway! I never was s

eserted us already. And as for your going, why, of course, you needn't. Doroth

ou couldn't walk so f

said it was 'next door to Cat Hollow,' and Cat Hollow's just beyond Skyrie. Dorothy'd better run over to Mrs. Sm

up before ten o'clock and he might

would be as difficult for me to climb into his high cart a

s the way she put the matter to herself, yet why-why! She had never done anything wicked in her life! and this man, "Archibald Montaigne," what did she know about such a person or any dogs which might h

ight into the woods, and there you'll be. Don't you be afraid, Sis. Nobody can do anything to just a witness, so. The boy'll be the one'll catch it, and heavy. That Mr. Montaigne looks like a regular pepp

ound that, like a good many other people, once given her own way mother Martha did not care to take it. Instead of ignoring the summons to c

once she had been run against and knocked down by one of them. Also, that on the morning of the "assault" these dogs had called at Skyrie and that she had lost hold of one of them, and that they had run away with one James B

he "ferocious" dogs belonged to his aristocratic neighbor, whose acquaintance he had not heretofore been permitted to make, although he had endeavored so to do. Mrs. Cecil was,

want him up here on our hill," she had once said to her old friend, and giving him

nial, hearty way, which could g

d I like new people. Don't fancy that a man who has made millions-made it, und

better

l make it my business to accomplish that fact even though, at present, he thinks a country blacksmith beneath his no

latial residence, and Seth Winters had waited a whole year, little dreaming that the acquaintance he had deter

, and that now was his chance to become acquainted with Mrs. Cecil. "I-I was offended at the time, but-it's to

eat Danes will not trouble you again. My 'Cousin' Winters, here-allow me to make you acquainted in a social as well as business way-my 'Cousin' Winters is almost as much attached to the beautiful animals

usin' W

ed "blue blood"-should claim relationship with an obscure farrier was a most amazing thing. Well, then, the next best step for himself to take

e might study the fluctuations of the "market" and scheme to increase the wealth he had already compassed. And with the shr

ou say. Do allow me to present them, call them in, or-if you will be so kind, so very kind, our precious Helena is an invalid, you know, you

e positively hated to know these "new, upstart people," she was too well bred to show it. But as Mr. Mon

this trap! The cons

elegraphed back

ee a prejudice get its downfall. T

which she had taken when she called the girl to her side; so that she now led her out of the office t

e heads of angels painted upon Christmas cards and, also, for an instant made her stare rather rudely. The next she had recovered herself and acknowledged Mr. Montaigne's introduction with a natural grace and ease which delighted Mrs

earing Miranda Stott had given it, while her young prisoner was ill with the measles,-and the trim, erect

and by another year she would have her dinner frocks made en train. Her own manner was rather disdainful, as if the people she met were not her equals; yet this contempt was for their "general stupidity." She had not her father's love of money nor her mother's timidity concerning her own behavior; for the

and indifferent to, it; and, though she revered her husband on account of his abili

ir command than they knew how to use. The boy was not as clever as his sister, but he was more generally liked, though his

pe you walloped that lumpkin good;

resence of the very "old woman" herself. He had none of his parents' ambition to know her or any other of the "exclusives" of the Heights, being quite sufficient unto himself; but he had been trained in th

and everybody's;" saying which, the lad pulled his hat from his head, and checke

of frowning with the disdain of hers. He adored her yet quarreled with her continually, because she had so little interest in "sensible, o

and did not mind, in the least, having been termed an "old woman." This boy was worth all the rest of the

le exercise to get him into shape, but I reckon a few

examine at closer range the good points of the horse, stroking his velvet

tared and

er come near him, or wouldn't if they tried-which only Helena has

but took to the business so well that by the time I was five I could take a fence with my father, any time he wanted to ride over the plantation. I'm glad to see you like them,

aigne with a questioning glance; but receiving no comprehending

low, easy vehicle and it's a good bit of a way back to Skyrie. I'm going there myself, and there couldn't be a bett

bled, twice the distance than become an enforced recipient of the Montaigne courtesy, John Chester felt that

ed not refuse, lest by so doing he would close the door to that future intimacy which he coveted. He felt that this intimacy with Mrs. Cecil

during which there issued from Seth Winter

! Never too old

and settling him comfortably there, with an ostentatious kindness on the part of Mr. Montaigne which the ex-postman inw

presence of Mrs. Calvert which did the most for us, though the man has mo

ce cat answered this summons. The defend