"
They arrived on time, and only had an hour and three-quarters to wait in
the station. Toward the last Aunt Mary grew very nervous for fear
something had happened to the train; but it came to time according to the
waiting-room clock. Joshua put her aboard, and she soon had nothing left
to worry over except the wonder as to whether Jack would be on hand to
meet her or not.
Joshua drove back home, let Lucinda out at the door, and put the horse up
before going in to where she sat in solitary glory.
"I wonder what _he's_ up to?" she said with a pleasant sense of unlimited
freedom as to the subject and duration of the conversation.
"Suthin', of course," was the answer.
"Do you s'pose he's really sick?"
"No, I don't."
"Do you s'pose she thinks he's really sick?"
"Mebbe."
"Ain't you goin' to sit down, Joshua?"
"I don't see nothin' to make me sit down here for."
"What do you think of her going?" she said, as he walked toward the door.
"I think she'll have a good time."
"At her age?"
"Havin' a good time ain't a matter o' age," said Joshua. "It's a matter o'
bein' willin' to have a good time."
Lucinda screwed her face up mightily.
"If I was sure she'd be gone for a week," she said, "I'd go a-visitin'
myself."
"She'll be gone a week," said Joshua; and the manner and matter of his
speech were both those of a prophet.
Then he went out and the door slammed to behind him.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - AUNT MARY ENTRAPPED
Aunt Mary's arrival in the city just coincided with the arrival of that
day's five o'clock.
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