I Went Out Of The House Hoping She
Would Do The Same And Never Return, But She Was There Still, And We
Had To Tell Her To Go, After All.
I must confess, though, that the
work she had objected to doing she did nicely while I was out.
Miller
told me that she had three pistols and two large watches in her
satchel when she went away.
Then came a real treasure - Scotch Ellen - who has been with us six
months, and has been very satisfactory every way. To be sure she has
had awful headaches, and often it has been necessary for some one to
do her work. She and the sergeant's wife prepared the supper for the
german, and everything was sent to the hall in a most satisfactory
way - much to my delight. Nothing wrong was noticed the next morning
either, until she carried chocolate to Mrs. Hughes, when I saw with
mortification that she looked untidy, but thinking of the confusion in
her part of the house, I said nothing about it.
Our breakfast hour is twelve o'clock, and about eleven Mrs. Hughes and
I went out for a little walk. In a short time Faye joined us, and just
before twelve I came in to see if everything was in its proper place
on the table. As I went down the hall I saw a sight in the dining room
that sent shivers down my back. On the table were one or two doilies,
and one or two of various other things, and at one side stood the
Scotch treasure with a plate in one hand upon which were a few butter
balls, and in the other she held a butter pick.
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