He'll be glad to take you."
"Who, Jim Dodge? You don't mean to tell me Jim Dodge can drive an
auto! I never stepped foot inside of one of those contraptions. But I
don't know but I might's well die for a sheep as a lamb."
Lois Daggett followed the girl from the room in a flutter of joyous
excitement.
"You can come home when you get ready, Abby," she said over her
shoulder. "But you want to be careful driving that horse of yours; he
might cut up something scandalous if he was to meet an auto."
Chapter X
Mrs. Daggett was sitting by the window gazing dreamily out, when
Lydia returned after witnessing the triumphant departure of the
promoter of Famous People.
"It kind of brings it all back to me," said Mrs. Daggett, furtively
wiping her eyes. "It's going t' look pretty near's it used to. Only I
remember Mis' Bolton used to have a flower garden all along that
stone wall over there; she was awful fond of flowers. I remember I
gave her some roots of pinies and iris out of our yard, and she gave
me a new kind of lilac bush--pink, it is, and sweet! My! you can
smell it a mile off when it's in blow."
"Then you knew--the Bolton family?"
The girl's blue eyes widened wistfully as she asked the question.
"Yes, indeed, my dear. And I want to tell you--just betwixt
ourselves--that Andrew Bolton was a real nice man; and don't you let
folks set you t' thinking he wa'n't. Now that you're going to live
right here in this house, my dear, seems to me it would be a lot
pleasanter to know that those who were here before you were just
good, kind folks that had made a mistake.
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