It will be only in the day's work if we keep Evelyn with us,
and it's a sort of work that will pay pretty well, I fancy."
"It certainly will--in more than one kind of coin," and Lee gripped his
friend's hand.
So it was settled. Evelyn agreed so joyously to the plan that her
brother's last doubt of its feasibility was removed, and he went away a
day later with a heart so much lighter than the one he had brought with
him that it showed in his whole bearing.
"God bless you and your sweet wife, Andy Churchill," he wrote back from
his first stopping-place, and when Churchill showed the letter to
Charlotte she said, happily:
"We'll make the copper motto come true with this guest, won't we? Evelyn
will be a very pretty girl when she loses that fragile look. Her eyes
and expression are beautiful. Do you know, she accepts everything I say
as if I were the Goddess of Wisdom herself."
"Charlotte," said Mrs. Peyton, a few days later, coming hurriedly into
Charlotte's own room, where that young woman was busy with various
housewifely offices, "I've had a telegram. I'm so upset I don't know
what to do.
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