As she came near Mrs.Campbell's, the wish naturally arose that Ella should accompany her.

Looking up she saw her sister in the garden and called to her.
"Wha-a-t ?" was the very loud and uncivil answer which came back to her, and in a moment Ella appeared round the corner of the house, carelessly swinging her straw flat, and humming a fashionable song.

On seeing her sister she drew back the corners of her mouth into something which she intended for a smile, and said, "Why, I thought it was Bridget calling me, you looked so much like her in that gingham sun-bonnet.

Won't you come in ?" "Thank you," returned Mary, "I was going to mother's grave, and thought perhaps you would like to accompany me." "Oh, no," said Ella, in her usual drawling tone, "I don't know as I want to go.

I was there last week and saw the monument." "What monument ?" asked Mary, and Ella replied "Why, didn't you know that Mrs.Mason, or the town, or somebody, had bought a monument, with mother's and father's, and Franky's, and Allie's name on it ?" Mary waited for no more, but turned to leave, while Ella, who was anxious to inquire about Ida Selden, and who could afford to be gracious, now that neither Miss Porter, nor the city girls were there, called after her to stop and rest, when she came back.