"Mrs.Pike--" "Father is going to send and ask Aunt Pike to live here, and it's your fault," said Betty concisely.

"It was your complaining about Dan that did it." Jabez gasped.

He knew the lady well, and preserved a vivid recollection of her former visit.

"She hain't a-coming visiting here again, is she, sur ?" he groaned.
"Visiting! It's much worse than that, a thousand times worse.

She is coming here for good, to manage all of us--and you too!" they gasped.
Jabez dropped helpless on to an upturned bucket, the picture of hopeless dejection.