Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-02-02
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as Nancy, whose father is a war CORE
ond at the 'front.'. have been chums
tnroug college. After ~coYmencement
Siberia to teach, when she gets a letter
from an unknown aunt at Freedom on
North Hero Island. She persuades Nam
her place and go to the aunt's home,
which is nov as Happy House,
Claire leaves for her own butterfly place
IN society, and to meet her brother Bar
wyelcomed BY Aunt sabrina as Of the
Aunt Milly. an invalid, and Biindy, the
house servant, who is a parsonage" in
Nancy. who has literary ambitions.
gets the gardener. to help her build a
nest, in the orchard, where she can
SECRETLY Sstcy carry on her writing:
orohard Aunt Miliy tells Nancy sy that
while running ava from sabrina, to
hurt in "a a railway iVsas y accid esto'e ah ies T ieft
she had been friendly was on the same
train, and was killed. The fact that they
belief that they Were running away to-
Eether, and Sabrina chooses to believe
the family disgraced:
AAl lCl4S ANd4ACy "a lNO TlAIllly
trouble" which centers about the older
brother of herself and Aunt Sabrina.
The brother is believed to have stolen
tanning a Thousand dollars. and he has
never been seen or heard from since be-
ing ordered from the house by hts faith
+ Nancy makes the acquaintance of
young Davy Hopworth, and she and
Peter Hyde, the hired man, who seems
to be more or less Of a mystery him
Cove club-a club Of boys.
Nancy gets q letter from her father
saying that he will soon return From
overseas. Il
Nancy. with the Hopworth children,
among the elite of Freedom, participates
in a big Fourth Of July celebration. ar;
ranged |. q by Webb, civi war veteran. and
Mrs. Eaton, the village leader. calls or
Aunt Sabrtny. to complain Of Nancy's
Sabriny defends the latter.
hired man. who tells here Of his farm
ing experiments.
CHAPTER XVI-Continued.
If Nancy had asked herself why she
sang as she dressed for supper she
would have thought, truthfully, that
1t was because she va ravenously
hungry and B'1indy's supper smelled
very good; and she chose to wear,
from her slender wardrobe, a pink
orEandy, because it would be cool
rot that she even dreamed, for a mo-
ment. of doing such a silly thing az
going to the orchard at sever O'clock,
to meet Peter Hyde!
A dozen times, during the evening
meal, she resolved that Peter Hyde'e
surprise could wait. He presumed
Indeed. to think that. after he had
.absented himself for SO long without
one little word Of explanation, she
would &c running at the crook Of his
little finger!
However. she put the pink 8 in
her belt and occasionally slipped It out
tiful rose she had ever seen-she
must ask Jonathan its variety.
At.five minutes Of severiA she picked
lup her knitting and sat r%esolutely
down between her aunts on the holly
hook porch. Just as Aunt Sabrina
was telling her how, back in 1875,
Robert Leavitt had dined with Bene.
dict Arnold on the flagship of his lit.
tie Champiain feet; two days befors
old clock within the house struck
seven, With her breath caught In her
Throat Nancy counted sixty, twice.
then suddenly sprang to her feet md
rushed off the veranda.
why. Nancy-dear" cried Aunt
Milly.' startled. 'asss5
"Humph," gruntsd AUNT sebrina
clicking lei needles faster than vel.
Peter was In the orchard. He had
been there since quarter OF seven
He was disappointed at the cooIness Of
Nancy's greeting; It seemed to him
that he had been gone for ages, and
he had. during his absence, quite
foolishH. been looking forward to THU
Injecting.
He had hoped. too, that ss,e nigh.
wear the rose
"lOne guess whore I've BEEN" he
M6ht1y. ID he held ont hill
hand 10 aGaast her into the tres.
dear mo-. how can ten? Buyina
Nancy tried to Msk1 her tons seen
air1ly Indifferent when all the tifrs
me va really consumed With curl.
city and deGlfe, too, ~ tell him
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