He (Mr.Carter) had bought the picture with the house, and offered to take it down, but I would not let him.

It was such a sweet, sunny, happy face that it did me good to look at it, and wonder who the young girl was, and if her life were ever linked with that of the stranger watching her.' Again the faintness came upon Jerrie, for she could see so plainly on the sombre wall the picture of the sweet-faced girl, with the long stocking in her lap--a very long stocking she felt sure it was, but dared not ask, lest they should think her question a strange one.

Of the stranger in the back yard watching the young girl she had no recollection, but her heart beat wildly as she thought: 'Was that Mr.Arthur, and was the young girl Gretchen ?' How fast the lines touching her past had widened about her since she first saw the likeness in the mirror, and her confused memories of the past began to take shape and assume a tangible form.
'I will find that house, and that picture, and that Mr.Carter, and the people who lived there before him,' she said to herself; and then again, addressing Marian, she asked: 'What was the street, and the number of that house ?' Marian told her the street, but could not remember the number, while Tom said, laughingly: 'Why, Jerrie, what makes you so much interested in an old German house?
Do you expect to go there and live in it ?' 'Yes,' Jerrie replied, in the same light tone.

'I am going to Germany sometime--going to Wiesbaden, and I mean to find that house and the picture which Miss Raymond says I am so much like; then I shall know how I look to others.

You remember the couplet: '"Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselfs as others see us!" 'Look in the glass there, the best one you can find, and you'll see yourself as others see you,' Dick said, gallantly.
Before Jerrie could reply, a servant appeared on the piazza, saying there was some one at the telephone asking for Mr.Peterkin.
It proved to be Billy's father, who was in the village, and had received a telegram from Springfield concerning a lawsuit which was pending between himself and a rival firm, which claimed that he had infringed upon their patents.