"Run on, Dick, and tell her I'm coming.

Run home, that's a good dog!" Dick started, hesitated, but at a sign from his mistress ran on again.

Huldah collected her work and rolled it all up in her work-apron,--one with big pockets, which Miss Rose had made for her,--but before she was ready a sharp bark from Dick made her wheel round quickly.

A strange, shabbily dressed woman was standing talking to Mrs.Perry.

She had come so silently, so unexpectedly that Huldah had quite a shock, it seemed almost as though she had sprung up out of the ground.
"Only someone begging, I suppose," she said to herself, but there was a vague feeling of trouble at her heart that she could not account for.