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It was one afternoon when Aunt Sarah had been particularly exacting9 that Nan fled to Place o' Pines. She had not been there for some time, having been occupied in too many ways to have many moods. This, however, had been a particularly horrid10 day. In the first place she had come down late to breakfast and Aunt Sarah had said: "Good-afternoon," when she entered the dining-room. That made all the others giggle11 and she felt so small. She needn't have been late, of course, but while she was putting on her shoes and stockings she thought of a new tune12 and had been humming it over so as not to lose the air, and, as she sat there dreaming, the time slipped away.
Then of course, Mary Lee might have seen that she was in a bad humor and should not have teased her about dawdling13, making her answer sharply.
"You old sharp corner," Mary Lee then had said.
"You're a Corner yourself as much as I am," Nan had retorted. "You're an angle; you're an angle worm," was Mary Lee's triumphant14 reply. And then Randolph had shouted with laughter. Nan's cheeks reddened as she remembered his mirth. She hated to be laughed at, especially by boys, and by older boys worst of all. She didn't mind Ashby and Phil so much, for they were younger, but she did very much mind [Pg 151]Randolph's laughter, so she had taken to her heels and had not spoken to any of them since. She hoped they would let her alone and that she would be safe in her hiding-place till supper-time.
It was two months since her mother had left home and longer since she had parted from her Aunt Helen. As she came through the orchard16 to where the pines stood sombrely green, she saw a charred17 space just outside her tiny grove18. The boys had evidently been there roasting potatoes, for there were skins and corn-husks scattered19 about.
"Oh, dear," sighed Nan, "if they have found out my darling grove, I shall never have any more peace." But, apparently20, the boys had not entered the charmed castle, for as Nan crept through the underbrush she saw that all was as she had left it, only a bit of white paper fluttered from the music rack to which it was fastened by a pin.
"They have been here after all," she exclaimed, "and have found me out. I suppose that is some foolish note they have left." She took the paper to the edge of the grove where it was lighter21 and read:
"Come, come, come, Come to the sunset-tree. The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe22 lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
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"Come at ten o'clock to-morrow by command of your
"Fairy Godmother.
"October 14."
Surprised and pleased, Nan's first thought was "I must go tell mother." Then with a rush came the recollection of her mother's absence. She was the only one who knew the secret. Her Aunt Helen had returned. Had she come alone?
Nan looked across the little brook23 toward Uplands. The house seemed as silent and deserted24 as in the weeks and months past. Slipping the paper into her blouse, she determined25 to go and reconnoitre.
The house looked grim and uninviting. Nan wondered if ever it had seemed otherwise, if ever the doors had been thrown open and from the windows had looked smiling faces, her Aunt Nancy's, her Aunt Helen's, her father's. The stick-tights and jimson weed held her with detaining hands as she ran back through the unmown lawn. They seemed like unseen fingers from fairies under a spell. Nan wondered at what mystic word the doors of this haunted dwelling26 would fly open to her.
"Suppose," Nan said to herself, "an ogre lived in that dark woods and I was in his power." She gave a little self-reproachful sigh as she reached the sunset-tree. "Mother would tell me that I was in [Pg 153]the power of an ogre, I suppose," she continued, sitting down on the gnarled roots which stretched far along above soil. "Mother would say old ogre Impatience27 and the bad fairy that makes me get to dreaming, had me in their clutches. Maybe they have. I wish I could tell my fairy godmother about it, and that she could give me a phial of precious liquid to squeeze on the ogre's eyelids28 so he would go to sleep and never wake up; and I wish she would give me a charm to change the fairy that makes me dream into one that would make me jump right up and get dressed in a jiffy. I wonder why it is I always love so to moon over my shoes and stockings. All sorts of ideas come to me then. Perhaps if I did nothing but put on shoes and stockings I'd some day have an idea come to me that would be worth while." The whimsy29 of spending the rest of her life in putting on shoes and stockings made her laugh.
The sunset was gorgeous gold and red over the top of the hill. Lakes and mountains and turreted30 cities appeared in the sky. "The holy city," said Nan, becoming grave. "That is where papa is. Now up go the roses," she went on as pink clouds detached themselves and drifted off overhead. "I'm sending you those roses, papa," she said. "Please take them into heaven with you and I'll try to get [Pg 154]rid of the ogre Impatience and the Poppy fairy. Poppies put you to sleep they say, so I'll call her that. To-morrow I'll stand on one foot to put on my shoes and stockings, for if I sit down I am lost. I wish I knew, papa darling, if you could look through those bright golden cracks in the sky and could see me standing31 here under the sunset-tree."
She returned soberly home and deliberately32 sought out Mary Lee and the boys whom she found practicing the double shuffle33 on the back porch.
"Where have you been?" asked Ran, pleasantly.
"In the enchanted34 woods," returned Nan, "but it was getting gruesome there so I came away."
Ran laughed. He was getting used to these speeches from Nan, and rather liked them.
"I can do it now," said Mary Lee eagerly. "I got Mitty to show me. See, Nan." And she executed the step easily.
"I don't know that step, but I know another one," said Nan, glad to perceive that her ill temper of the morning was forgotten, and being a little ashamed of supposing that they would miss her much when she went off alone.
The noise of their break-downs brought Aunt Sarah to the door. "What in the world are you all doing?" she asked.
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"Just doing some steps," replied Mary Lee, expertly executing her double shuffle.
"You might have been better employed," returned Aunt Sarah. "It would have been just as well, Mary Lee, if you had been giving some attention to darning your stockings. There is a fine large hole in the knee of one where you scraped it against a tree you were climbing, I suppose. And, Nan, it wouldn't do any harm if you were to see where you left the shirt-waist you took off this morning. We are not Japanese to hang up things on the floor."
"I wish we were," answered Nan. "I'd like to wear kimonos and shoes that slip up and down at the heel, and I'd not mind living in a house made of paper screens."
"Poor protection they'd be to you," replied Aunt Sarah, "for you would punch a hole in every one before a day was over."
Nan was not destructive and considered this an unjust imputation35, so she stalked off with her head in the air. She didn't believe but that she had hung up the shirt-waist and that it had slipped down. Aunt Sarah was so particular and was always dinging at her about leaving bureau drawers and closet doors unclosed. When one is in a hurry, how is it possible always to see that everything is just so?
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She found the waist not on the floor of the closet, but by the chair where she had laid her clothes the night before. There were some of Jack's belongings36, too, strewed37 around the room, but Mary Lee's and Jean's were carefully put away. Nan hung up the waist and then sat down by the window. Suppose the things in the big house at Uplands had been allowed to lie around helter-skelter, she didn't believe it would look so attractive as she imagined. This brought a new train of thought which she carried out, leaning her arms on the sill, her chin resting upon them till Aunt Sarah's entrance aroused her from her reverie.
"Up in the clouds, I suppose," she exclaimed. "You ought to live in a balloon or a sky-scraper, Nan, you so seldom want to come down to earth. I want you to find Jack and Jean and tell them to come in and get ready for supper."
Nan departed on her errand, smiling to herself in the thought that she had a secret from them all. She was out of sorts with everybody in the house, but to-morrow would be the sunset-tree and Aunt Helen.
She was promptly38 on hand at the trysting-place the next morning, though finding some difficulty in getting there in time as it seemed that Aunt Sarah had a hundred things for her to do. That she did [Pg 157]not dream over them goes without the saying, and Aunt Sarah congratulated herself upon the seeming improvement under her reproofs39. Promptly, as Nan appeared, the little figure of her Aunt Helen was seen approaching her. She did not wait for Nan to come up but ran toward her and clasped her in her arms, and Nan gave her as close a hug. Her imagination was strongly appealed to by this relative, so little known and who had chosen such fascinating methods of becoming acquainted.
"You dear Aunt Helen," cried Nan, "where did you come from?"
"You know me then," said her aunt.
"Oh, yes. When I told mother, she guessed who you were."
"And she let you come to meet me to-day?" said Miss Helen, with a strain of eagerness in her voice.
"She didn't know. She wasn't here to ask. She's gone away, you know."
"I didn't know. Tell me about it, please."
Nan poured forth40 her woes41 and fears concerning her mother.
"Oh, dear, oh, dear," sighed Miss Helen. "We didn't know. Oh, my dear."
"Do you think she may be very ill?" asked Nan her eyes wide with alarm.
"I hope not. I hope not." Her aunt spoke15 more [Pg 158]cheerfully. "No doubt she will get quite well where she is."
"She says she will if she can stay long enough."
"She must stay." Miss Helen spoke with decision. "Did she mind very much, Nancy, that you met me?"
"Oh, no; she was glad. She said——" the girl hesitated.
"Go on, please." Miss Helen spoke pleadingly.
"She told me that she had said something that she regretted."
"And that was——" Miss Helen leaned forward eagerly and caught Nan's hand in a tight clasp.
"That she never wanted to see any of the Corner family again," here Nan hurried on. "It wasn't any wonder, was it, when she was in such trouble and distress42?"
"I never blamed her," murmured her aunt.
"She said she ought to have tried to be friendly to you and"—Nan looked up shyly, "that you used to love me dearly."
"I've always loved you dearly," returned her aunt warmly, "and I hope I always shall. Ah, my dear, you don't know what it is to have those dreadful bitternesses come into a family. I loved you all, your father, your mother, you children, but I loved my mother, too, and she needed me, for I was all [Pg 159]she had left, and—well, never mind now. I am so very glad time has softened43 your mother's feeling, toward me at least, and I am so sorry, so very sorry, that she is not well. Poor dear Jack, it would have been a blow to him."
"Don't say that! Don't!" cried Nan. "It makes me feel as if I ought to be scared and trembly about mother and I don't want to." She put her head down in Miss Helen's lap and burst into tears.
"My dearest child," cried Miss Helen, "please don't cry. You make me so miserable44."
"I won't cry," said Nan lifting her head. "She is better, oh, she is, Aunt Helen."
"I am sure of it, darling. Now, do you want to know what brings me here?"
"I do indeed."
"I have crossed the ocean twice since I saw you. I took your kiss to your grandmother all the way over with me, and oh, Nannie, dear, you don't know how much it meant to her! The first tears I have seen her shed for many a long day came to her eyes when I told her about you and what you said. Then she was restless and unhappy until she decided45 that nothing would do but she must see you. At first she urged me to send for you or to come over and bring you back, but I could not leave her and I doubted if you would be allowed to come. [Pg 160]When she realized that, for the first time in all these years, she expressed a desire to come back to America. She has come to see you, Nannie. You won't refuse to go to her, will you?"
Nannie's heart was beating fast. At last she was to see the beautiful grandmother whose eyes followed her about from the portrait over the mantel. "Oh, I want to see her," she said. "I can't ask mother, but I know she would say yes; I know she would. Where is she, Aunt Helen? And when can I see her?"
"She is coming home. She is coming here as soon as I can get the house ready. She is with friends in Washington and I have engaged Martha Jackson to come over to clean the house and with Henry Johnson's help we shall soon have everything in order."
"I wish I could help," exclaimed Nan.
"Would you really like to?"
"I certainly would."
"Then you may. We'll go right over now for I promised Martha I'd come back soon so she would know what to do next."
This prospect46 of helping47 at Uplands was one of sheer delight to Nan. It was what gave her the greatest pleasure, and this opportunity of becoming intimate with the furnishings of the house at Uplands [Pg 161]was beyond anything she had ever hoped for.
Through the long weeds the two made their way to spend the day in uncovering furniture, unpacking48 boxes and setting things to rights generally. During the process, Nan became confidential49 and revealed more of her own character and of her home life than she could have done in days of ordinary intercourse50, so that Miss Helen came to know them all through her: Jean's gentle sweetness, Jack's passionate51 outbursts and mischievous52 pranks53, Mary Lee's fondness for sports and her little self-absorbed ways; even Aunt Sarah stood out on all the sharp outlines of her peculiarities54. Her unselfishness and her generosity55 were made as visible as her sarcasms56 and tart57 speeches, so that Miss Helen often smiled covertly58 at Nan's innocent revelations.
There was uncovered, too, the lack of means, the make-shifts and goings without in some such speech as: "Dear me, I wonder if our old sofa ever looked like that when its cover was fresh and new. It's just no color now and mother has patched and darned it till it can't hold together much longer, and the springs make such a funny squeak59 and go way down when you sit on it. Jack has bounced all the spring out of it, I reckon;" or, "we had a pretty pitcher60 something like that but Jack broke it and [Pg 162]now we have to use it in our room, for you know we couldn't let the boys use a pitcher with a broken nose."
There were moments, too, when Nan spoke of the ogre Impatience and the Poppy fairy, both of whom Miss Helen seemed to know all about, for she fell in so readily with all Nan's fanciful ideas that the child felt as if she had known her always, and often would fly at her impetuously and give her a violent hug, frequently to the peril61 of some delicate ornament62 or fragile dish which she might have in her hand.
As room after room was restored to its former condition, Nan breathed a soft: "Oh, how lovely," but when the drawing room was revealed and all the beautiful pictures were unveiled, she sat in the middle of the floor and gazed around. All this she had longed to see and now she was in the midst of it. "I have a right to be here, haven't I, Aunt Helen?" she asked. "I really have a right. You invited me."
"Why, of course, Nan."
"I shall tell Aunt Sarah I had. She will say I sneaked63 in or stood around till you had to ask me, but I didn't."
"Of course not, you silly little girl. Come now, I am half starved. Let us go see what Martha has ready for us."
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"Oh, I forgot about eating. I wonder what Aunt Sarah will say to my not coming home."
"Will she be alarmed?"
"No, not that exactly, because sometimes I take my pocket full of biscuits and stay out all day on Saturdays. I play I'm all sorts of people and that I have all kinds of wonderful things to eat. Have I ever had a meal in this house?"
"Many a time you have sat in your father's high-chair, and have banged on the table with a spoon, and, later on, you had many a sly meal with us when you would run off and I would catch you coming here. You couldn't cross the brook but would stand on the other side and call to me, 'Nenny, Nenny,' for that was as near Helen as you could get."
Nan sighed. "I really think I ought to go home. I could come back, I think."
"And leave me to eat my luncheon64 alone?"
Nan hesitated. It didn't seem very kind to do that, so she overcame her scruples65 and sat down to the meal Martha had prepared for them, wondering what Aunt Sarah would say when she heard about it. She felt a little startled when she stopped to consider possibilities. Aunt Sarah, though tart of speech, seldom resorted to active punishment unless she considered the limit had been overstepped, then she [Pg 164]did not hesitate to mete66 out supperless solitary67 confinement68 to the aggressor. "I don't care," said Nan resolutely69 to herself, "I'm not going to be impolite to Aunt Helen even if Aunt Sarah doesn't approve. She can punish me if she wants to. I shall not mind going without my supper." In consequence she ate a hearty70 luncheon, being hungry from exertion71 and, moreover, wisely providing for future possible fasting.
It was a memorable72 day and when at last they left the house and Miss Helen locked the door behind them she told Nan that she would hang out from the second story window a red cloth as a signal when she had returned from Washington, and that Nan was to come over after that as soon as possible. She kissed the child good-bye and said, "I dreaded73 coming back, Nannie dear, but now I am glad to come since I have seen you."
So Nan went off with an exultant74 feeling in her heart. It was all like a fairy tale; Aunt Helen the fairy godmother, her grandmother the queen of the fairies. This was the enchanted castle and Nan was to be given entrance to it. She ran down the hill, stopped at the sunset-tree to look at the reddening sky, crossed the brook, and ran plump into Aunt Sarah.
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