The Carter Girls

tually slept

aw Cousin Lizzie felt just exactly as I did about that Dr. Wright. He may be all right and he may be all wrong. If he is a

oment's lodgement in your mind? Dr. Wright is as good as

t to be honest

since they had been promoted from cradles. It was Saturd

him a lot an

ow-but then

, that we had been blindly selfish and heartless to let Father work so

yourself in your B. M. exams? Because if

Come in!" in answer t

ng in a dreaded yellow envelope. "Uncle Oscar, he dreamed 'bout aigs las' night an' they was whole an' entire, an' all de

the message: "'Your father and mother slept well and are now enjoying bre

sister's step-son, what got stuck in de lonesome ribs by a frien' at meetin' las' Sunday with one er these here unsafety razo

ht is very thoughtful? You just said

on to keep them from having to see so many people. That night train is always full of people we know and they all of them get on at Elba. I bet you he got his tele

is Saturday and no school. I think we had better go see real estate agents the first thing this morning and try to rent o

Douglas, how on earth

wearing silk stockings for a year we can live on your resolution. Do you realize that the c

has a kind of musical comedy effect in my mind s

ngry with me when I call you down about

plendid, and I am going to be so careful I j

ell that Helen and economy wer

to make all of you promise, that is

r khaki skirts and leggins and things that are appropriate? And then the cotton stockings that I

are loads of middy blouses in the house, so I am sure we need buy no more of them. As for stockings-it se

ay he would not go to the expense of sackcloth since he had plenty of velvet suits on hand, did he now? No! He went and bought some sackcloth if he didn't happe

to the poor. If Cousin Lizzie should hear of your doing suc

ance in the face of the Richmond public. Don't you think, Douglas, that I might have the fifty-nine cents that is in the bank so things will balance better, and with fifty-nine cents I can get

t the cotton stockings. Haven't you any money a

bove conversation was going on, and hunted wildly in a very much mussed drawer for her silver mesh bag. "Hurrah! Thr

venience and Beauty were not sacrificed to one another but went hand in hand. The girls loved their room with its dainty pink paper and egg-shell paint. They had not been in the house long enough for the novelty to wear off, as it was only about a year old. As Douglas lay in her luxurious bed w

ng shower as she was singing with many trills and folderols, tryi

le Bobby won't see the difference just so he can have plenty of mud to play in; and I-oh, well-I have got so much to do I can't think about myself-I must get up and do it, too. Here I am selfish

d I thought maybe we could help, so we hu

to wait for Dr. Wright to come home; and then if we can rent the house furnished, we mus

wasn't it kind of Dr. W

eel so unkindly to him! She utterly re

hen!" exclaimed Lucy. "He shan't boss

have that you won't even let her have a private little dislike without wanting to have some, t

do like him," said Douglas with a severi

do, I'm not going to take anyth

s, anyhow," said Nan. "I can't see that it would be any sweet

ttorney from Father makes it necessary for us to consult with him about s

ss to do that. I'd like to know how you are to occupy Da

ffeur go immediately; and I've got to tell the servants to-day that

Nan, "so please don't bunch

were born. I don't see how you can have the heart to dism

but it would be a great deal more heartless to ha

t to me. Heartless, indeed! If you had half of Douglas's heart and one-fourth of

nd Helen can't even now realize the state of affairs. I hated to have to t

my uppers all the rest of my life before I'd put

hey haven't got any money? What will w

for reconstruction of their lives. "Helen and I are going right after breakfast to see real estate agents about getting us a tenant, and Helen is goin

cotton stockings,

ing them for her," and Douglas went back to her room to dress and take up the burden of the day that was beginning to seem very heavy to her young shoulders. "If only Helen and Lucy could see

. None of them were very encouraging about renting during the summer months to re

r did the work of three men. Just look at the small office force he kept and the work he turned out! That mean

old man know that she had not even thought of informing the off

bank building. Two young men were busily engaged on some architectural drawings. They stopped work and came eagerly forward to i

o keep things going," sa

other, who had but recently

It is about done and I will do my best to finish it as I think he would want it, and get it off. Did he leave power of attorney

ou know as it was important to have Father kept very quiet, with no excitement. Dr. Wright will

sibility for the doct

han we dreamed even,"

possession immediately, or almost immediately," continued Doug

iven from Paris by the war. They have been living there for years-got oodlums of money and no place to spend i

u send them to me or

y! If you go home, I'll have

ind yo

ppened to know about them-and now

d ask for our house?" said Doug

t one piece of defective material in the whole building. Even the nails were inspected. If it had been on Franklin Street, I'd say one hundred a

had been very quiet while these business conferences had been going on. "T

for his household expenses-of course, that's not counting when he buys a car. I know it is none of my business, but I am very mu

ng up to Albemarle County, where Father owns a tract of land right on the side of a mountain, and

here? I understood from Mr. Carter

of it. We intend to camp and a

employer's family but they well knew the luxurious lives they lived and their helplessness. It was

at is, I think we are," remembering that the Power of Attorney had not yet been consulted and nothing could really be determined on

Camps have to be built and we can get up some plans for you. There is a bo

s nothing to do, and he is going up to Albemarle ahead of us and build the ca

ed home to prepare for the poor rich people who had been d

Helen to spend one of her precious dollars

market for flowers?" asked Helen. "It would make the house look

that would be very extra

ist squandering another nickel for a branch of dogwood. They jitneyed home, another extravagance. There was no tangible reason why they should not have ordered out their own car f

w," declared Helen, "to step out of a good ca

e, although furnished houses during the summer months are somewhat a drug in the real est

e, was carried away with the wild phlox and went into ecstasies over the br

perfect!" he exclaimed as he

he market flowers rented the