Jewel's Story Book

el that afternoon as she ran down the veranda ste

saw Mr. Evringham stoop to receive the child's embrace, and noted the attentio

ravine the longest while. Wa

one pair of shoes short, and shall have

new eyes. All sense of responsibility had vanish

he said. "I feel as if I were at some picturesque resort. It doesn'

, and his quick, curt manner of speech no l

campaign, and she seemed to think that

s behind the ears. Noting his expression, or lack of it, Julia wondered, mom

r plan, Jewe

. "I thought two of us in the phaeton and

phaeton and I o

gging in the road!" The child's

aw and handed her the large white package h

he box. "Oh, Huyler's!" she exclaimed. "H

st the kind Dr. Ballard used to give cousin Elois

ank God," he murmured, his mustache against her hair; then lowering her until he co

rive mother in the phaeton," sa

plan, I thought, was that

look so nice as grandpa does on Essex Maid," she added, v

the child bored the toe of one shoe into

do you want, Jewel? Oh, how good they look! I tell you you'll have

!" returned the child, pa

, in

ago, do

" He nodded

her mother. "Can't we help it?"

Business must come bef

w her swallow with an effort. She dropped th

he impassive face of the tall, handsome man beside her. "It's to-morr

el with hers. She did not touch him. A

Mr. Evringham, "to stay here a while an

ok her he

ontinued the broker quietly. "She ought to have rest,-

expected to feel her arms thrown around his neck. Instead, she

said, "don't you wan

moistened his eyes as well. "Am I of any conseq

o nice on Essex Maid is that grandpa has beautiful riding clothes, and when he rides off he looks like a king in a

ible, d

to, and I want mother and me to go to Chic

eally

ngham, who took it. "If grandpa won't feel sorry," she answered. "Oh, I

aid to his son now, that which, in his carefully prepared programme, he had intended to say about th

ot devotedly attache

has treated me like a cross between a yellow dog and a step-c

returned the broker c

New York's beyond me. I h

ed New Yorker's contempt for the Windy City. "Yes,

have me become a r

, if you don't gather moss, you'll ev

p, moving Jewel to one side, the better to see

matters in Chicago," he said. "If you show

, she had stood in awe, was going to put a stop to the old life and lift their burdens. So much she perceived in a flash, and she knew it was for the sake

e back here?" she ask

glad to, Jewe

to whose hand she still clung. Sta

r and I going to live with you

f you wil

ould have made certain that it was not putting his head into a noose; but the child

s, grandpa?" she asked, with soft triumph. "We did kn

lance and placed his other hand ov