The Carter Girls

soul was wroth within him at womenkind who could let a man like the one he had just left upstairs slave himself almost into insensibility that they might be gorg

ld not be so hard on them as on the poor little weakling upstairs w

Costly rugs covered the floors. The walls were hung with signed etchings and rare prints. Ordinarily George Wright would have taken great pleasure in such a

r, had even become aware of his presence. She gave a little gasp, sprang from the low ottoman, and faced the young physician, a spirit of antagonism showing from the first in her

aps it might be just as well for me to speak to all of you." The last part o

no gleam of humour now and whose long upper lip was pulled down so far and so grimly that his perfect teeth could

but as she bowed backwards, as it were, that is, jerked

it down?" as

u girls like a Dutch uncle and I m

en icily, consulting her tiny wr

is your e

I choose t

have one, too, but am going to spare a few minutes to talk abou

Carter had always said that Helen was the best child in the world just so long as she had her own way. Fortunately he

ordering her about? She would show him! But in the meant

s physician I feel compelled to have a v

d Lucy, all pertness go

se than die unless he can be allowed to take the

worse than deat

As I told your mother yesterday, a sea voyage would be the best thing for him, a long, lazy trip. When one gets on the water out of sight of land he kind of loses his identity in the immensity of Creation. That is what I want your father

-" fro

ccount of my patient. Your father tells me he has absolutely no incom

tated Douglas. "Father nev

ve you ample allowances

" spoke Nan with her funny dra

and for the first time they became aware of th

ut for you to manage with very little

elen. "We can easily keep house

p house on what?

house! Just go

working, there is no mo

we will hav

and addressed all of his remarks after that to Douglas, who listened attentively and gratefully. She well knew it was no pleasant task for him to plunge into their financial affairs, but he explained to her that it was i

Can I trust you to get them ready, without bustle and confusion, by to-night? They can take the train to New York leaving here at eight.

ery kind," mur

n't know yourselves, the old habit that is as much a part of the whole family as fingers and toes will assert itself, and the burden will fall on him, as usual, and I can assure you I will not answer for the consequences if one more ounce of worry is put on that tired brain. I am going to bring a notary public so he can give you, Miss Douglas, power of attorney to transact any business for him. I am loath to bring even this matter to him, but that is necessary. As for what you are to do with yourselves after your parents leave, that is, of course, for you an

! Don't! Don't!

e meant the young doctor or Helen Car

her--" he

riticise our mother!

from all members of his family, but I think she has a good effect on him. I must go now and get the notary public so you can enter into your office of vice regent. I'll also make arrangements for the railroad trip and long-distance my friend, the surgeon on the st

do my

ense and calmness. He noted with added confidence that Douglas was very like her father in coloring and that the general

elp Douglas all we

g and did not acknowledge the bow that included he

rom the rear before the

' my puddin' an' it'll be ruint if you don't give

nd a rather sharp call descen

t? Whatever it is

done took de bes' fluted bum bum dish fer tow mold his mud pies. I done tol' him not tow meddle in de mud no mo' fo' to-morr

led in spite of the barber's shears, the mouth of a cherub and eyes that were the envy of all his sisters-great dark eyes that when once you looked in them you were forced to give up any anger you might feel for him and just tumble head over heels in love wit

he naughty child by his dirty little hand, he said: "Say, Bob, how would you like to come out with me in my car and hel

much wages d

good, and another kind if

door closed much more softly than it had opened, and Oscar ch