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I room with Margery clinging to her gown
Edith took the note abstractedly, an
noyed 70 be interrupted in her work,
but when she had opened il and read her
face colored with bhssfuI emotion. It
was an invitation from Fanny Ashley 70
join q yachting party on the river for
Thursday.
M. Ashley said a verbal message
would answer the landiady re1narked
fairly bursting with curiosity 20 know
why the Ashleys should be running after
Mrs March.
TELL him. please. I accept with pieas
ure." said Edith. pink and smiling with
unexpected happiness Why should she
deny herself a holiday-iust this ones.
~She accepts with p~leastru.s said Mrs
Northup to herself, as she went down
Stain. Margery1s light Steps pattering
behind "WeE, I never nd see the beat
Of that The girl Is q witch. And how
did she get in with them Ashleys, the
proudest stiffest. uppsrcrust folks in Lit
tiefeldY'
There was no more writing possible
for Edith that day. She sat and dreamed
for an hour with Fanny Ashley's per-
fumed note in her hand, while the
yellow jacket plastered his clay house
on the beam over her head Her own
story was too absorbing TO allow her 10
go on weaving fictitious webs. Some
thing 30 new and delightful had come
into her life she felt Obliged to give her
self up TO the luxury Of her SENSATIONS
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no clothes wherein to appear before fash
ionabie people. Her old garments seemed
to rise mp and ahame her. She had torn
her only possible gown the day she
brought Celestina Rivers through the
brxmbles, and it seemed out Of the power
Of thread and needle to darn that trap
door" in the skirt so as to remove the
reproach- But she had promised to go
on the yachting party, and her heart beat
quick and fast at the thought. The
writing table was pushed agninst the
wan, and the remainder OF the long day
was spent in repairing her wardrobe;
for Edith was as quick with her needle
as her pen when she set herself to tho
taxi
The accusing trap door darn v1s
neatly hidden under the fold Of tho
gown, the cracked boots were mended
and renewed with liquid blackng, the
old gloves were deity repaired, and the
long sits in her black lace sash drawn
up with cunning art. Some new trim
ming for the old hat was even discovered
at the bottom Of the box, a crumpled
feather, that recurled by aid Of a skill
full penknife looked almost as good y
new, and with the work Of her quick
fingers was blended many happy girlish
dreams II was almost dark before
Edith had finished furnishing, brushing
and dusting, and then she had only Just
time to run over 10 the hospital and in
quire after Miss Rivers. The old lady
was much better, had come back to con
s~ciousness, and asked in q feeble voice
after her young rescuer. She had also
expressed solicitude In regard to her MS
volume OF poems Edith went 70 bed
delightfully."- dreamy, As If she had eaten
hasheesh, only to see her hopes of literary
fame melt and fuse in a warm indefinite
vision Of Injurious happiness
She awoke next morning under the
spell to note a flock of purple clouds in
the sky, a rosy light over the tree tops
and the sparkle Of dew on the plants and
flowers in Mrs Northup's little garden
She dressed herself, with the influence Of
the dewy, star gemmed dawn still hang
ing about her. She was still young and
believed in miracles. Il was two hours
later when Ms. Eorthup saw her lodger
drive away m the Ashleys' carriage, with
the smart coachman in livery on the box
"Hess me, said she 70 herself. IF she
don't look like . queen, and the girl has
got a facs and fxger that outshines all
the Ashleys put together. a~riztocrzs
though they Be"
II would be impossible 70 describe
Edith's day on the yacht hdeed. the
girl never quite graspedit harsslf, Se
seemed 70 be floating along grassy and
AowerY hanA thfOaEh enchartea isF
ands. EVER hcomfng nsoEe and more NJ
ttmzts with the Ashlsys, especially HAr-
Odd, who sat beside heK tAn3ng the most
delicious nonsense when she was not tell
ing himabout Willie praisirg her broth
ers scholarship and Mswonderful genius
In a way that made her blush for shame
when she recalled it later.
But Harold took pains to draw her
out, and seemed deeply interested in the
poor boy, and she had bean led on, she
knew not how, 70 con6de 70 this young
man, almost a stranger, her dearest
hopes about her adored brother, her only
near relative. Then everybody was 50
kind, exactly as if the little fete had been
made in her honor. They dined on .
pretty wooded island, carpeted with
ferns, and Miss Trevor was brought OF
the yacht and arranged with rugs and
pillows that she might enjoy the feast
without injury to her health. The scene
was perfectly idyllic under the trees,
and the manners of this family toward
each other were so beautiful and cour-
teous that Edith's young imaginative
head was quite turned She remembered
wandering round the island a long time
with Harold in such q state Of bliss that
never for a moment had she thought Of
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