Edna Browning; $b or, the Leighton homestead. A novelHolmes, Mary Jane
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Edna Browning; $b or, the Leighton homestead. A novel
Holmes, Mary Jane
American fiction -- 19th century
There were tears in Jack’s eyes, and his voice shook so for a few
minutes that he could not go on with his story; but after a little he
continued, and told Maude about the burglar at Oakwood, and why he was
going to Scotland. It was on a mission for Georgie; and Maude entered
heart and soul into it, and would scarcely let him rest a day in
England, so anxious was she to find the Janet among the heather hills,
and the fatherless little bairns. They found them at last,—a
rosy-cheeked, brown-haired little woman, and two fair young children
with her, one clinging to her dress behind, and peeping shyly out as the
strangers came in, and the other turning his sightless eyes toward them.
Their errand was soon told; and when Jack saw how bitterly poor Janet
wept, he felt that Henry Morton had been a kind, loving husband to her,
even if in secret he had done her wrong. After arranging about the money
which Georgie had sent to the widow, who supposed it came from her
husband, Jack and Maude repeated their offers of assistance whenever it
was necessary; and then promising to see Janet again before returning to
America, he bade her good-by, and started on their tour through Europe.
CHAPTER XLVII.
ROY FINDS EDNA.
Edna had promised Georgie that not a long time should elapse before she
would make herself known to Roy and his mother. She had also promised
Uncle Phil an early visit to Rocky Point; and within a week or so after
Jack’s departure for Europe, she asked and obtained permission from Mrs.
Churchill to go to her old home. It was very lonely at Leighton without
her; and Roy found the time hanging heavily on his hands, and was trying
hard to make himself believe that his property at Rocky Point required
personal looking after, when he received through Miss Pepper a letter
from Edna, expressing her sympathy with him in his recent loss, and
saying that if he would come to Allen’s Hill, at such a time, she would
be there to meet him.
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