The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors

come in as partner in a sanitarium starting in the capital city of Virginia. Certainly he had been very successful in his treatment of Robert Carter's case, so successful that ev

le more guarded in her expressions of admiration, but she had a sincere liking for him an

, extravagant, vain girl. It takes some generosity of spirit to like the person who makes you see the error of your ways, but Helen Carter had that gene

with first aid to the injured, which in the case of a snake bite means sucking the wound, Helen began to realize that w

that her dignity as teacher was involved and she must not confide in her family. She was waiting, hopin

hinking mischief was almost identical with doing mischief where Bobby Carter was concerned. The deed was no sooner con

the girls were not looking, causing howls of anguish when they inadvertently sat down on the same. Bobby manfully took the

t," sighed Douglas, "a

maybe Nan's name for their place was a good one

kyrie to bear

ould not melt in his mouth. What a sturdy little fellow he was

are gettin

ckets. "That ain't f

y! What o

aying I done it ev'y time you asks

Bob

I put the rubber on the stove,-this here is a big apple I got for not fillin' the girls' desks with chestnut burrs,-this here pile er oak balls I come mighty near not g

n Minnie

a funny thin neck Minnie's got, just like a mud turkle, and how she wears a sti

id Douglas, strug

ey put 'em in a teensy money purse with a tight clasp, an' while Minnie was

y. I could not imagine what was the matter with her. Bobby

said I didn't 'serve no blame money 'cause Minnie jes' cried when she missed her lessons an' didn't scratch none, only wiggled, an' teacher never did ask us to hol

you must take all of these b

d if I

hat way! Don't say:

you say, 'blame gif's,' with your own mouth?

now you no longer take the blame but have t

ellin' my own sister Douglas. You ain't

I am teacher, either, and when you worry me sick at school it is only teacher and not Dougl

had made his sister Douglas cry. When she was playing teacher, she had feelings just as much as she did when she turned into his sister Douglas again. And what was this thin

a-gonter take back all the things-'cep'n

all the days and nights of anxiety she had spent in thinking of her sick father; she was crying for the stern way in which she had been forced to deal with her mother over extravagancies; she was crying for having to make Helen understand that there was no money for clothes; she

to the Mexican border and had plead so earnestly with her to try to love him just a little bit and to let him go off engaged to her, and she had turned him down with absurd talk of friendship and

y girl. How good Lewis had always been to her and how well he had understood her! He thought she was cold and unfeeling now, she just knew he did. She had re

omin'. If'n you don't stop

hear its chug as it climbe

face," she begged Bobby, while she smoothed her ruffled hair and wi

nt it any wetter for," said Bobby, who might have quoted: "'Too m

the little handkerchief back from the brook dripping wet. "You mos' cr

hat there car is jes' roun' the bend. I reckon if you turn yo

e recent storm were still visible on her pretty face in spite of all the water Bobby had brought from the brook. Douglas tried t

ed so truly grieved and anxious that already Dougla

! I am a fooli

r from weak. Are you not the staunch ally?

I made her cry!"

their sisters cry?" Bobby hung his head. "Well, come on and let me take you home, and

g, too. I don't

ar doesn't like to take for long ri

ly dumped at the yard gate while Douglas was whis

d turning to gaze into Douglas's face. "What is it that made you weep so profusely? No

as sm

am happy. I am so distressed by

ve a very te

w tell me what ca

Her mother was out of the question and Helen was too young. Before she knew it, she was trying to tell Count de Lestis all about it, all but about Lewis Somerville-somehow that was something she could not mention. Her grievances sounded very small when she tried to put them into words. Naturally she could not dwell upon her mother's extravagancie

oubt Bobby's misbehavior was the last straw, but there had been a heavy load to carry before Douglas's camel of enduran

f her being too ladylike to scratch, and how she mu

de Lestis. "What amuses me is how boys are alike all the world over. The discipline of my school days was very str

ut you are

n Berlin. Even Americans have profited by

gaze on him and met his glowing eyes. Blue eyes looked unflinchingly into black

e corners," thought the girl. "It makes him look a wee bit like t

d gently, contrite that even for a moment she had tho

file presented to him, with its soft, girlish lines but withal a look of strength and determination. Her loosened hair was like sunlight and her cheeks

scal Bobby must have been very annoying but I cannot but t

ened almost i

arming face is convulsed with weeping, one cannot but divine that some affair of the

ffened more

cousin, a Mr. Somerville, who

you! I don'

et your sweet eyes shed another tear for him. He is not worth it! If he can find amusement in the ladies o

led now. She turned and once more blue eyes looked unflinchingly into black. This time the bla

" Once more his car took hi

t all!

u had not co

inging me for the drive very much

well, that is w

but she still look

e Minnie: she squirms

with a swiftness that disarmed the count, "your moustache