Glenloch Girls

inished reading a letter which her husband had just handed

aughter around the house to bring me my slippers and play and sing to me when I am tired. B

ouding. "I dare say he won't like it at all, but I don't see that

Hamilton rising from the table. "For some reason nothing I

to everything he used to like; he utterly refuses to see one of the boys or girls, and he sits for hours

lton with more cheerfulness than he felt. "

as she said goodbye to her husband in the hall. "That will give

of a boy who loved all kinds of outdoor exercise. A pair of tennis racquets crossed on the wall had evidently resigned their place for the time being to the golf clubs which stood in one comer. A couple of paddles occupied another comer, and rigged on the wall near the door was a complicated arrangement of rope

said to herself, as she waited a moment to brush the tear

f the one she had left. "You should provide a boy with a torch so that your visitors can see to get across the room. What h

curtain and letting in a flood of light. "There, now I feel more

t at this time in the morning

boys and girls had passed the window, and Arthur, who had turned involuntarily to

er cheerfully, "and it seems to me you might be ready for college next fall

o anything in athletics with this confounded leg, and I

thetic," she added quickly as her son. frowned impatiently. "I realize, in part, at least, what it must be to you to give up your dreams of athletic glory; but I know, too, that n

see that I'm lame. I believe I was rather proud before," he continued with a faint smile, "because I was straight and strong and could almost always beat the other boys at any game we tried; I know it a

ce in strength and straightness and skill, and to be sensitive if in any way they are taken away from us. But for all our sakes you've got to bring yourself out of this unh

or a moment and the

bout it. We are to have a new member in our family; a little girl, the daug

?" asked Arthur

, relieved to find that he took it so cal

u don't mean to say that we've got to have a girl fourteen years old in this ho

apprehension. "I think she's quite harmless, Arthur, and p

ther," he answered ruefully. "I shall keep out of h

oped you would help me to make it pleasant for her. Her mother died only a little more than a year ago,

id Arthur half ashamed. "I'm blue and disagreeable most of the time, a

feelings that are fully as bad as tears, I th

wn upon his hand in a way that seemed to

rt as only mothers can. She knew, however, that Arthur must be made to see that

said at last, "I mus

at I shall be glad t

et here?" asked Arth

e wants to have two or three days in New York before sailing that will probably

" said Arthur, trying to a

write the note and do my marketing. Don't forget that you are going to practice with th

doorbell and a quick scamper of feet up the stairs made her put down her pen with a smile. "Why, girls," she said as a

men walking around the building, so we were sent home," answered the tallest of the three girls.

and Dorothy, Betty, and I'm particularly glad just

y. "I love to be consul

rrow a daughter for a whole year, and I thought you t

d Charlotte. "And what's her name?" put in Dorothy. "I always like

lovely mother about a year ago, and now her father is obliged to go abroad on b

the good times we ca

expect her, M

at I want you all to advise me about making her room prett

oveliest room in the house." It was a pretty room, with its delicate pink and white paper, its dainty d

id Charlotte, who usually thought aloud quite frankl

one thing I mean to have some andirons so that there can be a fire mad

ug before it. I hope she's a nice, quiet girl and likes to read," she added with pretended anxiet

know how to get on with any one who doesn't like to read. For my part I hope she will

pensively, "I hop

ant each of you to think of something that will make the room look more homelike and more like a girl's room. You may select a

ething," be

tell Mrs. Hamilton secretly, and after the room is fin

Lottchen," said Betty

te said

hey must go, and Mrs. Hamilton set

RUTH" (sh

, and the next best thing to that will be to have a borrowed one. I am afraid you are not so full of delight at the prospect as Mr. Hamilton and I ar

o see me at all hours and on all sorts of errands. They are very glad to know you are coming and are already wondering how you look and whether you will like them. The one in the middle of the picture is Charlotte

nge if I don't mention him," she said to herself. "I can't tell her that he is dreading her coming, and I certainly

the effects of a severe accident. He has not yet left his room,

that it may soon assure you of our hearty welcome. With

very si

A. HAM

r letter. "Poor little girl," she said half aloud, "I suspect she