Letty and the Twins

andmother all the particulars of her interview with Mrs. Drake, but the mere fact that Letty was there sati

rone-this mound with the grapevine twisted into a seat. Kit made it for me. Isn't he clever? He

and he thought I meant a funny paper," exclaimed Chri

e getting very red at the thought of these children

y about him in the house. W

she could read well enough. She had not progressed ve

ed Jane, settling herself comf

es sometimes to my

topher. "What sort of songs? Si

em. I'll sing them for you some time, but not no

l-Jones was saying to grandmother. "Letty's mother, it seems, must h

in-law said the same thi

er's death out of pure kindness of heart. Mrs. Drake said she thought of trying to get Letty a place as nursemaid when they went back to the city; s

grandmother, "to have cast that poo

arity, as every one does; that is, I have given sums of money to different hospitals and all that. But I hav

added grandmother. "She has such a swe

of her already; f

ou any

t the poor child is woefully behind her years in knowledge. I sh

ty too long. As soon as arrangements can be made, Letty and I must return to the village. Now that I have a willing pair of little feet to wait upon me and run my errands I

regretfully, "but I dare say you will feel freer and more

. We shall have little tea-parties in my sitting-room or down und

nvitations to them, they were frankly delighted. They did not like the idea of losing Letty and the ponies, but the prospect of almost d

stedly as Jane herself, her vivid imagination making the dainty waxen creatures seem all but alive. Christopher, for his part, r

s had both been invited to join. Billy Carpenter came out to Sunnycrest nearly every afternoon on his bicycle,

e twins had been inseparable, sharing their pleasures and enjoying the same games. Jane was hurt sometimes by Christopher's desertio

anion's time, she was able to devote herself to Jane. Every morning Letty drove Mrs. Hartwell-Jones out in the pony carriage, Jane and Christopher taking turn

helper than Jane herself, and was so genuinely interested in the art of coo

ldren, you will understand how difficult it is to find time to write letters even to those you love best in the world. But Jane rather liked it when she got started-if there was some one at hand to help with the spelling and the letters need not be long. Before sailing on the big steamer, Mrs. Baker, Jr.

ic ears all the little details of each day's happiness, so now she told, in shorter form but with as faithful accuracy, the events of Sunnycrest. Mrs. Hartwell-Jones's accident, the finding of her by the twins and her coming to Sunnycrest, had all been told in a previous letter. Now there was the account of the circus and the finding of Letty to relate, and when the crooked, blotty little

ircumstances did not make the child selfish and lazy, as it might have affected some natures, easily spoiled by comfort; but more eager and willing to serve those who had been so kind to her. Mrs. Hartwell-

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s before she goes to school, of course, and it will be such a pleasure to buy them. It has been so long since I have had any one to buy clo

re always 'the children.' Now Jane is a girl and Kit a boy." Grandmother paused a moment as if she wished to say so

ps had retired to their own rooms to lie down. The children were told to stay quietly in the shade until the sun was lower, and Letty agreed to tell them

e had read in one of Jane's old books, but found t

said Christopher disgustedly, when the story was ended, "after she had treated him so

Jack that all the giant's treasure belonged to his mother, and

r stories, Letty?" asked

Jane. "You know you s

story I read once, that I love dearly. It was a story in a magazine that a girl lent me at school, and I loved it so that I read it over and over again. I thin

re away," answered

on his back in the shade, and was ready to

the story. It is ca

eated Christopher, "

and you'll see what he got for be

n Jane, "please make Kit promise o

o was the first to interr

tory hadn't begun yet. Mak

why I have

oetry at school, and she might forget something if she had to stop in the middle. Besides, explanations cu

" conceded Christopher. "Go on, Letty,