The Carter Girls

to put finishing touches to the very rapid packing of steamer trunks, Mrs. Carter helping in her pathetically

ng for

d me in my father's room when you had given ex

s not ast

xpected to

ould find you, but I knew ve

I would sneak in

confidence in me and would do your own sweet will. I hope you

lked in that terrible way himself. Yo

rse, sleep is always 'kind Nature's sweet restorer.' If you will let me pass, I will now go to see Miss Douglas about ordering your car for

oor," cried Helen bitterly to herself as the doctor went past her. "

schoolgirl was not a pleasant morsel to swallow. He felt sure of his diagnosis of Mr. Carter's case, for, having served for several years as head assistant in a large sanitarium in New York, he was well acquainted with the s

but gentleness and sympathy were the strongest points in George Wright's make-up, and as he went by the girl he cou

the downtown station and get them all installed in the drawing-room with the door shut so they need not see all th

nd tha

some looker! If she had the sense of her sister

roud, scornful girl, she had turned again into he

take him out with me again soon and let him blow my horn and poke ou

, ordering the car at the proposed time, and then captured Bobby, who was making his way to his father's room. She inveigled him into the back yard where she kept hi

yard to kiss her children good-by. Poor little mother! The meadow brook has surely come on rocky places now. W

obey the stern mandates of the doctor. Even the negro servants kept in the backgroun

times down in Mobile, whar I libed onct. Nobody went to them funerals f

n a family as one could find in the whole world, they were sure. Their eyes were red and their noses redder. Douglas had had the brunt of the labor in get

was bawling like a baby on Helen's shoulder, tr

o brown sugar and melted into the sea," declared Helen, when the storm had

like Gibraltar to us. His picture would have done just as w

r to myself: I am not going to wear a single silk stocking nor yet a pair of them until Father comes home, and not then unless he is well. I have some old cotton ones that I got for the Camp-Fi

ybe behind the clouds the sun was, after all, still shining

Those whiskers did some growing between Cleveland's and Wilson's Administrations. You remember when Wilson was elected and he shaved them off, his wife made a big sofa cushion out of them; an

the cushion back on where his whiskers used to be if he didn't stop holdin

w perfectly well. Mr. Carter's case had been taken hold of in time and the doctor was trusting to his splendid constitution and the qu

ast I am. We will sleep on it and then to-morrow get together and all try to bring some plan and idea. There was almos

to be the purse bearer! I don't believe she k

wrote a check for the amount in bank, showing from Father's check book, and after he had paid for the tickets, he left the rest for me to put to my account. I

til it was accomplished, and no matter how distasteful a subject was to her, she mastered it. This was her graduating year at school. Now all joy of the approaching commencement was gone. She was sorry that her dress was already bought, and in looking over the check book, she had found it was paid for, too. Forty dollars for one dress a

upted Douglas's musings and made all of the s

aven? It is n

of course. She always rings

of their father. She came into the library in ra

eting the girls. "I must see him immediately. Your mother, too, o

he is

? When will

gifted in tackling Cousin Lizzie, who was of an overbearing nat

t importance. I should think you could see that I am in trouble and not stand there t

how knocked up he has been looking lately, and the doctor has taken him with Mother to New York. They have just g

s! It is about my nephew Lewis