12/36 When she came out a few minutes later she was pale but triumphant. "There," said she, "it's back with her, and I've got just this much to say, and no more, Flora Barnes. When you get home you gather up all the back breadths you've got, and you do them up in a bundle, and you put them in that barrel the Ladies' Sewing Society is going to send to the missionaries next week, and don't you ever touch a back breadth again, or I'll tell it right and left, and you'll see how much business you'll have left here, I don't care how sickly it gets." "If father would--only have joined the trust I never would have thought of such a thing, anyway," muttered Flora. She was vanquished. Don't speak so, Mrs.Whitman." "You had better." The undertaker and his son-in-law and Henry had remained quite silent. |