The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories

r three of the other impecunious young men of the neighborhood, he remonstrated with them on this apparent waste of time. When he later discovered that they were be

om their farm pupil. They told him that he was there

nely wayside station. This is exactly the position in which the twins found themselves. So, while Aunt Patience, of Bournemouth, tarried and

h great energy to the work of the farm, determined to disprove his ang

e uneasy moments, and the uncomfortable suspicion that part

for her to keep up friendly relations with Reginald and Randolph, and he d

rewdness, was arriving at a very correct esti

ng out of the fly-specked window at their brother at work with the oxen in the fields. Then, too, the many flat

sed to pay for it when it came, telling him that he could pay for it himself. Fred paid for it and worked all afternoon without saying an

k they had cheated him? And they asked each other over an

pset them. She told them that if Fred did all t

ely they felt that a storm was coming. They began to

hen they see the blue veil of smoke lying close to the horizon, or the dull red glare

rs. Brydon to go driving with him, an invitation which Fred urged her to accept. When the drive was over and Rance came in to the twins' apartments, and on