Part 13 (2/2)
At that state her for so questions about Bertha, how she looked, how old she was, and how she was dressed
”She's just uess, but not so awful old,” Henrietta said ”I don't knohat she had on her She ain't as pretty as you girls Guess there ain't none of our family real pretty,” and Henrietta shook her head with reflection
”What happened to her that she wanted to leave that dreadful fat wo an interest in thehappened to her that I know of,” said Henrietta, shaking her head again ”But by the way that lady talked it would happen to her if she got hold of Bertha again”
”How dreadful,”at her chuirl,” said Amy ”She has been shut up some place, of course If I could just think who that skinny woman is--or who she looks like But how she can drive a car!”
”I think we can do so,” Jessie declared ”I've had ht much about this poor child's cousin and her trouble”
”What will you do?” asked Aht to be able to advise”
”That's a fact,” agreed Aood lawyer Of course, not so good as Mr Wilbur Drew But he'll do at a pinch”
CHAPTER X
THE PRIZE IDEA
When the two girls paddled back up the lake after their adventure at the old Carter house, Henrietta squatted in the middle of the canoe and seemed to enjoy the trip i up and down the lake, and they look pretty Me and Charlie Foley and sotown made a raft But Mr Foley busted it with an ax He said we had no business using the coal-cellar door and Mrs Foley's bread-,” observed the freckle-faced child
Alh Nevertheless, like her chuirl's situation
Perhaps with Amy Drew this interest went no farther than sympathy, whereas Jessie was already, and before this incident, puzzling her ht be done to help Henrietta and iirls paddled the canoe in to a broken landing just below the scattered shacks of Dogtown, and Henrietta went ashore It was plain that she would have enjoyed riding farther in the canoe
”If you see us coain, honey,” Amy said, ”run down here to the shore and ill take you aboard”
”If Mrs Foley will let you,” added Jessie
”I dunno what Mrs Foley will say about the strawberries I told her I'd bring hoo over there And here I coether too wet to pick wild strawberries,” Jessie said ”I wanted soo another day And you can find your bucket then, Henrietta”
The chuhted the Norwood place and its roses Everything ashore was saturated, of course And in one place the girls saw that the storrove of tall trees at the head of the lake and near the landing belonging to the Norwood place was a landmark that could be seen for several miles and from almost any direction on this side of Bonwit Boulevard As the canoe swept in toward the dock Aht that thunder was so sharp It struck here”
”The thunder struck?” repeated Jessie, laughing ”I _areat tree!”
She sahat had first caught Amy's eye One of the tallest of the trees was split froash looked like a wide strip of paper pasted down the stick of ruined timber