Christian fiction; Families -- Fiction; Love stories
Merrily they worked, and accomplished wonders that night, for Shirley
let them stay until nearly eleven o'clock "just for once"; and then
they all piled into the car, Shirley and Carol and Elizabeth in the
back seat, George and the happy Harley with Graham in the front. If
there had been seven more of them, they would have all happily squeezed
in. The young Hollisters were having the time of their lives, and as
for the Grahams it wasn't quite certain but that they were also.
Certainly society had never seen on Sidney Graham's face that happy,
enthusiastic look of intense satisfaction that the moon looked down
upon that night. And, after all, they got home almost as soon as if
they had gone on the ten-o'clock trolley.
After that on one pretext or another those Grahams were always dropping
in on the Hollisters at their work and managing to "help," and
presently even Shirley ceased to be annoyed or to apologize.
The east end of the barn had been selected for bedrooms. A pair of
cretonne curtains was stretched across the long, narrow room from wall
to partition, leaving the front room for their mother's bed and Doris's
crib, and the back room for Shirley and Carol. The boys had taken
possession of the loft with many shouts and elaborate preparations, and
had spread out their treasures with deep delight, knowing that at last
there was room enough for their proper display and they need feel no
fear that they would be thrown out because their place was wanted for
something more necessary. Little by little the Hollisters were getting
settled. It was not so hard, after all, because there was that
glorious big "attic" in which to put away things that were not needed
below, and there was the whole basement for tubs and things, and a
lovely faucet down there, too, so that a lot of work could be done
below the living-floor. It seemed just ideal to the girls, who had
been for several years accustomed to the cramped quarters of a tiny
city house.
At last even the beds were made up, and everything had been moved but
the bed and a few necessities in their mother's room, which were to
come the next day while they were moving their mother.
That moving of mother had been a great problem to Shirley until Graham
anticipated her necessity, and said in a matter-of-fact way that he
hoped Mrs. Hollister would let him take her to her new home in his car.
Then Shirley's eyes filled with tears of gratitude. She knew her
mother was not yet able to travel comfortably in a trolley-car, and the
price of a taxicab was more than she felt they ought to afford; yet in
her secret heart she had been intending to get one; but now there would
be no necessity.
Shirley's words of gratitude were few and simple, but there was
something in her eyes as she lifted them to Graham's face that made a
glow in his heart and fully repaid him for his trouble.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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