Show I 1 15 K M I 1 M ra I 1 9 1 t it 11 45 I 1 d i C 1 1 I 1 I 1 IA q S it 0 W wildest V V I 1 0 d V 4 n 9 I 1 P 1 0 C CHAPTER III continued J lias list their education teea be oom on m fenced mke asks hiby with ken keen an anxiety my sly sister imagined trat wat she be had sucked in teaching them their al laughs robert champley Champ Cham lcy ploY but hall till still confound confounds b anil and d whilst tests learning la is to an acquaintance with the mier letter 0 dreadful ejaculates ruby looking shocked to no tam roust must be loht lot I 1 think so 10 much depends upon a child a early training and I 1 know that was dear clara i a dea idea loo ilse it tuo ut gions ions mr champley Chain Chum pley eagerly and slid with bli big ken keen es so nid steadily teA dlly on ruby as though the e had suddenly into an borac la in that cane case I 1 must re about it at fit u one ace but I 1 rout must manage 10 lo get someone who will ranke male their lesions lessons more than thin bait halt pla for they are neither of 0 them par strong poor children and I 1 would not lave have them worried on any account I 1 dare a say it I 1 offer i a hand bond some items salary 1 I 1 shall be to able to get them a goi governess Kover erness nofe w who ho will helen listen to my wishes on that point I 1 had bad better hotter I 1 think advertise for some one about bout twenty then ehe she will not be above playing with the childr i and she he will not have got soured U 14 luf feting with the world I 1 oh mr lir champley Cham ploy what an utter ly mistaken aken ideal erlein ruby in real consternation at thia this mot dangerous danger oua suggestion what you want t to a woman of a thorough disciple borim afriay I 1 oh no I 1 dont responds rei ponds mr lilt LL I 1 am not going to band hand ovet my ebil drel to a martinet lie its speaks with such unusual decision that stuby belna begins moat heartily lu to wish ehe she bad had not broached the subject of elu edu cation dut but girl girls are so and often 0 so o impatient with ahe she falten falters it if you aro are determined to have a ft young person WO would ald it not be better to engage some one in the neighborhood who could eeme come to them for a few hours a day that rb is I 1 a very good idea as a far as it eoe goes I 1 answers mr champley Chara pIty reflectively fleetly ely only where am I 1 to find hr r suddenly a bright thought nay al moet moat an inspiration strikes ruby looking up at him with clasped handi hands and eye eyes ehe she says oh mr air Champ champley lity it I 1 might only be allowed to teach them I 1 would with pleasure lots ou misa ilse NN ulden Ilden aye says her corn com panton in surprise you lee aby hy not nott questions ruby quickly I 1 waa was their mothers mother a beet bent friend and I 1 dote on children you do not know how much brightness would be added to my lot it you would w I 1 only entrust me with their education I 1 I 1 I 1 had no idea that ou had any gift that way 1 1 I think I 1 have at any rate I 1 know that it would make me very i happy if it you would bend send me dob bob and meg for a few hours three mornings a week mr Cli champley ampley frown frowns and un comfortable I 1 11 II really could cot not dream of eo so far troubling you mies lilies wilden he bays says with a de d aided head shake I 1 teaching a ie to very irksome work to the initiated and I 1 do dt not with wish my children to become a burden birden on my oh nonsense noni enee crie cries ruby with a playful emile smile don t I 1 tell you that I 1 should enjoy having thema them rals rats ing her voice a little she he calls her mother to her aid ad I 1 mamma I 1 am trying to induce mr sir champley Champ lcy to t lit let me teach bob and meg met don t you think tt it would re ll 11 do me good to tto have sume regular fecu pation of course it w would tid my mr dear ac mra mrs wilden cheerfully only I 1 an am not quite sute u you know much to teach them I 1 you s so mamma thinks me in competent says ruby smiling per haps you object to my pan plan for the came same re rea oh dear no laughs robert chamdler Ch ampler 1 I have no doubt whatever of roar a ability but I 1 in that cr e I 1 shan I 1 listen to your lete says ruby archly as she risea fists from her ineat and crosat cro over to the piano plano and I 1 shall consider be the matter settled next monday I 1 hall shall ex hect the acar children at ten then without bl lowing time for any objection she takes the seat which shell has jut just vacated and breaks into a brilliant arrangement of lively scotch alre rboert auert champley makes onu more effort t to free himself from an obligation which is so exceedingly distaste tul ful but hid hh not ery cry cherr reasons are quickly overruled by pully and her mother so that he leave leaves the wilder nesa ness that evening with a cloud on bis his placid krow row 1 I wish ish that woman bad had more tact bi he confides gloomily to ted as ba hav ins ing donned light ivere and lighted their bigam they wend end their way down the short drive atch woman queries ted in a voice of indifferent wonder why miss wilden of course I 1 her iter common sense tell her that I 1 would rather have A it regular gjerness gu erness tor for the children it they need teaching there Is nothing in the world I 1 hate more than of llis axis meddling with my and yet there Is nothing that one Is more utterly incapable of sup pres bing hInt without positive rudeness 1 I say dont don t get waxy oer os er it old boyl suggests ted regarding bi bis 11 brother with some amazement for robert has as a rule such an equable temper that it seems strange to find i it even in the least ruffled ruffied for my own part I 1 thought it awfully kind of miss wilden to propose having the kids kid a over 3 she he z sia zas very tery unselfish and nd k ind hearted i dont doubt tor for a moment that ibe she i LA rf v i I 1 ir r a m of t estimable bonn ree respond ponds i inobe r t but she has be no tact no common sense of she he mint must have seen sn plainly that I 1 bated hated being put under such ao an obligation if it she 1 upon teach los the children I 1 d don on t see how I 1 ca can prevent her bar only I 1 hall shall certainly send her a check ut ua the tol enl of the quarter for ber her trouble and slid so 0 o make a business matter of 0 it you cant possibly do that cries crl tad in a voice of consternation 1 I am sure ur she be would take it as e an dinst iti it if you want to satisfy your au the children could make her soma present of jewelry or sorrit something thing ot of tt abt at eort sort I 1 I 1 don t caro sto long as abo gets paid somehow gome liew remark remarks the rider elder brother carelessly eare lely and yet with a good deal of annoyance in his hl tone tea walk walks on for some morr mo ats in meditative silence then he ay jay sud sul denly I 1 wonder what ha has come over shell ince since I 1 met her last she used to be one of the Jol joli jolia ici 4 little girls in exist ence and now she he seems to be full of and spite surely she he can t hate base been crowed crossed in love lose yet nothing else alf that I 1 can call think of at would count for the utter indifference which wh ch she the beems mr tvr fur the world in general ioor poor little shell I 1 noticed a area grea allange in to her too assents robert drear dreamily rilly As A you say ay she he used to be uch such a chatty hald child and this evening her beh ailor wae wad almost rud perhaps she he ha haj had something a as you suggest gest to our her I 1 thought she he looked quite pretty in that simple white dree dreas 1 1 I might have thought her pretty if it she ho had hail condescended to make bersel t agreeable laughs toil ted but nince since she he did nothing but nuh me MV at very turn her hair truck struck me at ag being remarkably red and her temper uncommonly bad ant I 1 that piece of music an a awful ful infliction T agrees robert heart ily iter ifer family ought to give her a hint not to inflict herbele on visitors or if it ebe she insists on playing ehe she id limit her performance to fite ilse minutes ea ch C well I 1 must own it was wu rather my jit confesses honest ted I 1 she warned me beforehand that I 1 t ant her to play again nalls if I 1 beard heard her I 1 we well the she gave us a quantity it not I 1 laughs robert indeed ebe she did I 1 tel ted with almost a groan CHAPTER IV 17 ruby has now been the self constituted instructress of bob and meg bleg for nearly a month the novelty of ber her voluntary olun tary tak task has worn off the children too hare have taken off that feeling of restraint and sis which caused them in the beginning to sit lt lika i little models of patience during the two hours devoted to lessons they have now begun to realize the fact that their liberty Is restricted during the morning visits to u the wilderness Wd erness anil and both are be tinning to regard their disinterested benefactress simply in the light cf ef a jailer ruby possesses none of those qualities so essentially necessary to I 1 win childish hearts she tibe has baa no pa lence no tact and not an atom of real sympathy for her young charges one ono bright june morning bob Is la in bome strange hieroglyphics gly phles supposed to represent pot hooks in a very blotted and limpy copybook whilst poor little meg leg with an ominous quiver of her lips to standing w with ith ber her hands behind ber her in front of ruby vainly seeking in her cassise little brain tor for the answer to the ott oft question quett lou now ow meg blet wake up and tell me like a good little child what Is three times four tree time times four our tree times four repeats meg drearily so often has the same question lon been pul pu in the game words that it canves no cleaning meaning to her childish reason ruby has a war ay ot of scanning the news whilst she carries on her monotonous string of questions so that ber her face is completely hidden from her poor root little victim yea yee three times four you will stand there until nu tell me you know very well berls er ir ls ruby in tones of stern reproach this seems seeing such an exceedingly dreary prospect to poor meg that her two little aal fist lists are thrust iv into bar eyes and she breake breaks 1 into 0 to a dilima howl how I 1 I 1 say you miss wilden you juit just stop bullying our meg cr er es dob bob sud and denly turning round on his high perch from which he cannot descend un unaided aided and regarding ruby with angry es ee and a very rl red face you rude little boy says ruby throwing Ing don down her paper in surprise and regarding the yoong young feltl with a haughty start go to your copy at once or I 1 will put you in the corsters cor comer stert meg is a naughty naughty girt girl and it she does not tell me at once ones what three times four Is I 1 will make her a dulee a cap meg throws herself upon the carpet in a a paroxysm of fright the disgrace tu her mind sounds so ter that her bial changed into convulsive sobe sobs onit stopped when blob elmita at the top of his big vole I 1 1 ihrer I time times four are twelve meg 11 tree time times tour four are twelve 1 sobs meg from her cro crouching achIng position and ahn sho eh goes on with ber her bryin cry ins more tranquilly thie this open re rebellion kHIon on bob doha a part causee cau see ruby to rise from her chair a and nd advance ominously towards the culprit 1 I don t care I don tl cries dob bob in a frightened ace you can put me on three dances C it you like elby alias nates no answer but hiving having reached k 11 at side harp sharp box on each er 1 I don doat I 1 care repeats nob vh whose ose e I 1 KL AA poor roof hills fife lice Is t crime at t tan b isitt ally little bey bon then yea you are a eclied says huby ruby angrily and ad a As I ment went you ball shall do another whole mpr of pot hooks dob bob doggedly 1 I don doat t car care a reiterate as stuby roughly drags him from rom his P ewh 11 now w watch a tel me helst I 1 act et your ropy copy and if it yoi yon yo i make a blo blot t oa on this th pie page I 1 puolan you remember I 1 wouida t be b ai as aroa era 29 you for or do d I 1 whole world re morito lire chirping voce at this moma with ert treat delt ion she he has rites aln from the carpet and nd Is I 1 retarding regarding rigby with a Int mixture stare ct at cislik and fer fear there WEB we silence in th the obart in pot whilst kuby libor labors it w hole line lice of attly stately pothook pot hoo hook is she nh Is U ilay very careful about ettlin the copy py well because the copy li is occasionally shown to mr champley she make makes a it graceful picture stated ou oil a low chair and with her well poised head bent eagerly over her tart test unfortunately u dob bob aad and meg bleg are re not of an age to opp appreciate beauty ai As A it mere study yet notwithstanding thil this fact dob bob a keen eye eyes are flied apiou her closely though with no friendly loot his hi keen gate light lights upon a hair pin Pta loosely out from ruby heary beery plait cautiously v very ory cautiously loudy he first louche touches it thru then draw draws it out and hold holds it up tor for megs approval that little damiel damsel I 1 mile miles and dimple dimples with dells delight ht much pleased with hb his beccu success lo 10 L quietly withdraw withdraws another pin and then another bu but suddenly his eaul tallon tation changes into fright tor for with a a low movement the big shining plait cone comes gliding down and fall falls it at his hi feet oh I 1 dida t mean it he sire in it to tone no of apology but our hair baa has cone e off rien now lo 10 L not 1 the enormity of hie his offence nor can he be why by nuby become becomes ro to alarmingly red as she stoops to pick 11 her lost property ald you cut it off bobo asks meg innocently ignoc la 10 1 0 I 1 only took out the plan ani nl it I 1 fell off explain explains dob bob who I 1 is full ot of consternation at the mischief be h has b you had no tight right to touch it gay says ruby severely if tour your pap papa cal on knew kt how rude you have been he h would have yon you punished this the he stairs by way of naming warning the children against repeating thi this contretemps contre temp S at hom home little doe does she he understand their perfect love ove ind confidence la in their lr athe father her announcement only has ha the if r feet of sending tenderhearted tender hearted meg off WW into a spasmodic fit of weeping to die a Is she at the idea of causing silca to her dear papa to be continued |