The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-12-21

come tomorrow? shan't care how long
you are gone IL can have Maddy here,
and the doctor will come up every day,
will you, doctorT' and the soft eyes look
ed up pleadingly into the doctors face.
ut is not settled that Maddy comes"
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"
I'll ride down and let you know to-
morrow" Guy said. 'sThese domestic
matters, where there is difference of
thinking. had better be discussed alone"
and he turned spontaneously toward Ag-
mes, who knew 1t 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
Aikenside as Agnes was that she should
not. He knew, too, how to attain this
| end without further alteration.
VERY WE'LL" was his quiet reply, you
can remain at home If you choose, Of
course. l had intended taking you myself
wherever you wished to go; and not only
that, but l 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 I'M
founded prejudice against a girl who new
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 1t all over.
and finally to decide to 60 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 lei
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 1t best. As l am
Jessie's mother, 1t will be perfectly prop
err for me to hire and manage her." and
as Guy acquiescsd In this suggestion, she
sat down at the writing desk. and com
menced very pleasantly worded note
in which Miss Clyde was informed thai
she had been recommended as a suitable
person with whom to leave Jessie during
the summer and a part Of the autumn
and that she, Jessis's mother, wrote t.
ask If for the sum of one dollar pc
week shs were at liberty to come to Ak
enside an governess, or waiting maid.
''Or whatW Guy asked, as she read t
him what she had written. EMadd.
Clyde will not be waiting maid in thi
house, neither will she come for one dol
lar a week. as you propose. i hire he
myself. l have taken q fancy to tn
. girl. Commence again; substitute com
panion for waiting maid, and offering he
three dollars per week instead Of one."
As long as Guy paid the bill Agne
could not demur to the price, althoug
remembering time when she had laugh
a district school for one dollar per wee
and boarded around besides, she though
, three dollars far too much. But Gu
, had commanded, and him she general
obeyed, so she wrote another note, whic
, he approved, and sealing 1t up sent
down to the red cottage.
: 1t was the doctor who carried Maddy
). answer to Agnes. the doctor who mac
all the succeeding arrangements, decidir
, that Maddy would not be wholly stror
, until the very day fixed upon by Agn,
= for her departure for Saratoga. For tn
Guy was sorry. 1t would have been a
easy matter for him to have ridden dow
1 to the cottage, and seen the girl
= whom he was beginning to feel SO niue
interest that in his last letter to Luz
he had mentioned her as about to becon
= his sisters governess but he did not ca
: to see her there. 1t seemed to him TIL
the surroundings of that slanting roof
;, house did not belong to her, and he wou
= rather meet her in his own more luxul
GUS home. But the doctors word w
y law, and SO, on the first day Of Augu:
> he followed Agnes and her three hu
travelling trunks to the carriage, and W
% driven from the house to which Mad,
y was coming that afternoon.
Ito be continued)