Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-11-21

come tomorrow? I shan't care how long
. you are gone if l can have Maddy here,
and the doctor will come up every day,
will you, doctor?' and the soft eyes look
ed up peadingy into the doctors face.
1T is not settled that Maddy comes, v
the doctor replied, adding as an answer
to Guys question; IF Agnes could be
willing, l do not think you could do bet
ter than to secure Miss Clyde's services.
Two children will thus be made happy,
for Maddy, as l have told you. thinks
Aikenside must be little lower only
than Paradise l will gladly open nego-
tiations, if you say So
III ride down and let you know to-
morrow" Guy said. ''These domestic
matters, where there is difference of
thinkin had better be discussed alone" i"
and he turned good humoredy toward Ag-
nes, who knew it was useless to oppose
him.
But oppose him she did that night,
taking at first the high stand that sooner
than have country girl like Maddy
Clyde associated daily with her daughter,
she would give up Saratoga and stay at
home. Guy was now as fully determin-
ed that Maddy Clyde should come to
Aikensde as Agnes was that she should
not. He knew, too, how to attain this
end without further alteration.
Every WE'LL" was his quiet reply, you
can remain at home if you choose, OF
course. had intended taking you myself
wherever you wished to go and not only
that, but | was about to ask how much
was needed for the necessary additions
to your wardrobe, but if you prefer re-
naming here to giving up most un-
founded prejudice against girl who nev-
er harmed you, and whom Jessie already
loves, you can do So" and Guy walked
from the room, leaving Agnes first to cry,
then to pout, then to think it all over,
and finally to decide to go to Saratoga
and Newport.
Accordingly, next morning as Guy was
in his library reading his papers, she
went tripping up to him, and folding her
white hands upon his shoulder, said, very
prettily:
II was real cross last night, and let
my foolish pride get the ascendency, but
have considered the matter, and am
willing for this Miss Clyde to come, pro-
vided you still think it best. As l am
Jessies mother, 1t will be perfectly prop
er for me to hire and manage her." and
as Guy acquiesced in this suggestion, she
sat down at the writing desk, and COM
menced a very pleasantly worded note,
in which Miss Clyde was informed that
she had been recommended as suitable
person with whom to leave Jessie during
the summer and a part of the autumn,
and that she, Jesse's mother, wrote to
ask if for the sum of one dollar per
week she were at liberty to come to AK
enside as governess, or waiting maid.
"Or what?' Guy asked, as she read to
him what she had written. "Maddy
Clyde will not be waiting maid in this
house, neither will she come for one dol
lar a week, as you propose. l hire her
myself. | have taken a fancy to the
girl. Commence again substitute COM
panion for waiting maid, and offering her
three dollars per week instead of one"
AS long as Guy paid the bill Agnes
could not demur to the price, although
a time when she had taught
= district school for one dollar per week
and boarded around besides, she thought
three dollars far too much. But Guy
had commanded, and him she generally
obeyed, so she wrote another note, which
he approved, and sealing it up sent it
down to the red cottage.
1t was the doctor who carried Maddy's
answer to Agnes, the doctor who made
al the succeeding arrangements, deciding
hat Maddy would not be wholly strong
until the very day fixed upon by Agnes
.or her departure for Saratoga. For this
Guy was sorry. 1t would have been an
easy matter for him to have ridden down
% the cottage, and seen the girl in
whom he was beginning to feel so much
interest that in his last letter to Lucy
ne had mentioned her as about to become
lis sisters governess; but he did not care
TO see her there. 1t seemed to him that
he surroundings of that slanting rooted
house did not belong to her, and he would
rather meet her in his own more luxuri-
,us home. But the doctors word was
av, and so, on the first day of August,
he followed Agnes and her three huge
travelling trunks to the carriage, and was
driven from the house to which Maddy
was coming that afternoon.
Ito be continued)