Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret

though she never could get to sleep. H

her part in it. Her parents had much to discuss, much to decide upon. The Scotch lawyer urged their presence before the

thence, over the winter ocean to Glasgow, and so on by rail to Edinburgh, was a journey the co

require her husband's undivided attention while she made the long and arduous journey. The sea voyage was righ

n Scotland spelled necessity in this case. Of the little sum left in bank, most of it would be required to pay the fares of Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood to Edinburgh, and their modest

make arrangements through him to mortgage the cottage if it became absolutely necess

ithin forty-eight hours to catch a certain steamer bound for the Scotch port of Glasgow, as Mr. Sh

LL WE DO

lty her parents found in this present event. It never entered her busy mind

well as did Mr. Sherwood that to take the child was an utter impossibility. Th

nce on the other side? No answer that came to their minds seemed the right one. They

woman's eating with the family, that was a fiction she kept up for appearance's sake, perhaps, or to salve her own claims to former gentility. Sh

mmanding rap at the kitchen door in the mi

was staring from Momsey's pitying face to Papa

g without me, all that long journey? Wha

at way!" begged Momsey, puttin

ment, daughter, that we would contemplate leaving you

ough it couldn't be. I won't know what to do witho

d it quite broke Momsey down. She

ing to wait on her when she has her dreadful headaches? And who's going to play 'massagist' like me? I want to know

such that we cannot possibly take you with us. That is final. It is useless for us to dis

had never seemed so stern before, and yet his own eyes were moist. Sh

ur little daughter with us, but that we are much worried by the

an orphan asylum," choked Nan. "I'

!" cried h

ble to her mother's side. "You poor dear! I won't say anything mo

"We get no nearer to the proper solution of the difficulty," he s

n said, with some difficulty ke

house, honey," M

e?" suggested N

"She is not the person

oarding house around th

boarding house. Oh, Papa Sherwood! We must find someb

isingly gruff voice took up the m

sie. And Kate'll be fairly crazy about her. If you're going anywhere for a long spell, just let me take h

le, and putting out both hands to the big man whom Mrs

msey, half rising herself i

e the great fur coat and cap that he had worn the evening before

known he was her Uncle Henry. Nobody, she was quite sure,

sn't she told you what she did last night? Sho! Of course not. She don't go 'round blowing about her deeds

little daughter's action. Gradually, after numerous personal questions were asked and answered on bo

mazed and delighted his simple mind. The fact that they had to take the long journey to Scotland to obtain the money troubled him but little. Although he

ng to light a long leather pouch, with a draw-string of home-cured deer skin. "An

ps on Jackson Street. I didn't know but I might get to cut that timber. I've run

his wife, and the

culated Nan, un

ots. "Beg pardon!" he exclaimed, for his ears were very sharp. "This young lady, I s

k. Out in the woods you are as free as air, and there aren't so many bosses, and yo

od, his own eyes twinkling, "you are in

ny reptiles like old Ged Raffer. And we can thank a merciful Creator for that. I expect

trouble with this old fellow

claims I ran over on his tract about a mile. He got to court first, got an injunction, and tied me all up in a hard legal knot until the sta

umber of sticks cut, if the surveyors back up his contention. Nasty mess. The original line was ru

ws the rights of that line business; but he won't tell. Gedney Raffer's got a strangle

Bob. I didn't want to come to the house last night and surprise you; so I stayed at the hotel. And all

ck with me to Pine Camp. Kate's got to see and know her. The boys will be tickled out of their boots

, over the water; can't leave this plucky girl alone. Her old uncle and aunt a

ttle this matter herself, for it was too hard a question for either Momsey or Papa Sherwood to decide. She

think, to go into the woods in the winter. And, and I can come ri

ade Nan's head whirl. Momsey was to buy a few necessary things in New York before she board

y "Goodbye" only very hastily to Bess Harley and her other school friends. Her school had to be broken off a

icago. All went with a rush and clatter, and Nan found herself at last rumbling out of Tillbury, on