The Democratic advocate., 1893-04-08

you sat. Though IN the picture she girl.
don't know her name; but | saw her this
afternoon in the road That's why came;
she told me ghost lived here. Shemeant
you. She's very kind, but so funny She
thought she knew me- She called me
Little Lad
Little Lad Yes, that was his pet
name. She recognized, then-she remem
bered And you saw her this afternoon"
The old gentleman had forgotten the
strawberries. He dropped the child's hand
"a ghost Only ghost = he mutter-
ed, and went rapidly down the steps to the
cedar avenue; and there walked to and fro
as was his custom, his white head bowed
upon his breast.
CHAPTER ".
so Robin pays calls = said Mrs. Savile,
family smiling. She lay prepped up with
pillows, her young face tliin and worn, but
happier than in the afternoon, because now
her husband had finished his long days
work in the black city, and was resting at
her bedside.
"Did | never tell you, dear, that | was
christened Robert after little uncle drown
ed ten years before my birth remem-
ber now Mr.. Savile added, musingly,
"my mothers calling me Robin, and my
fathers forbidding it on account of the
painful associations The great shock was
still vivid, he said, in my grandmother's
mind. So then degenerated into Bob"
"You were Robert only and always to
me- said his wife" Robert, toi que
'aime 7 But how curious that | should
have hit upon Robin to specialize this child,
knowing nothing of his predecessor"
eMa'am, said Clara, precipitately enter
ing, ''please to look at this here beautiful
basket The piles of strawberries red
uns and white 'uns And l never see
such roses. There's asparagus, ma'am,
underneath, and young green peas.
II know I know = cried Robin, caper-
ing.
"From the Gentleman Opposite, ma am,
with his respectful compliments, hoping
you'll pardon the liberty, and will Master
Robin take back the basket at his conve
nience? Mr.. Bolton, the butler, left that
message. A pompous piece He wouldn't
wait for thanks. He said as, if You sent
'em, he dursnt give 'em. His master, he
said, would thank you, ma am, for eopde
scending to accept such triAes.
Robert, these roses are heavenly cried
Mrs. Savile, burying her tied face in the
mass of fragrance.
Il shall thank him myself" said the
curate, starting up.
But he reappeared with tidings of no
admittance. The servant described by
Clara had explained, majestically courteous,
that his master never received visitors.
"It's all according to what the milkman
said, remarked Clara in the kitchen.
ale can't bear no one a-nigh him.
"You mustn't trust milkmen, quoted
Robin oracularly ''they water the milk. :"
''This 'un don't then" replied Clara
with tartness. "He's most respectable
young fellow. Our landlord-that's his
master, Mr.. Cudds, as owns cows-wanted
to run up shed on some waste ground
beyond the Gentleman's garden. 1t I'D
be handy for Mr. Cudds big meadow, and
there's a spring convenient for the COWS
the COWS, not the milk, she added sharply.
''But no, the old gentleman wouldn't
hear on it, though the bit o lands too
rough to be cultivated. So then Mr..
Cudds run up this 'ouse instead, facing his
front gates.
@Out of spite" said Robin, quoting
again,
eMr. Cudds is sorry now, the milkman
says. But him and the Gentleman had
had words. The Gentleman's uncommon
hasty. And yet, that generous A cart
calls for broken meats regular, to be gave
away in the town. It's queer he should
set such store by a bit o waste-that
rough, and at the back of his kitchen gar
den"
Robin heard this recital with much in
terest, and the following afternoon set
forth again, secretly resolved on further
investigation. Once more, making his
way round the house, he peeped in upon
the long room. A quill pen in the open
inkpot looked fresh from its masters hand
but the master was not there. The childs
spirit of adventure burned within him.
He crossed the lawn and jumped down
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