Then I went to the window
and glansed out. There was no moon, but the stars were there as
usual, over the roof of that emty domacile next door, whence all
life had fled to the neighborhood of the Country Club.
But a strange thing caught my eye and transfixed it. There
on the street, looking up at our house, now in the first throes
of sleep, was the Stranger I had seen that afternoon when I had
upset the milk wagon against the Park fense.
III
I shall now remove the Familey to the country, which is
easier on paper than in the flesh, owing to having to take
china, silver, bedding and edables. Also porch furnature and so
on.
Sis acted very queer while we were preparing. She sat in
her room and knited, and was not at home to Callers, although
there were not many owing to summer and every one away. When she
would let me in, which was not often, as she said I made her
head ache, I tried to turn her thoughts to marriage or to
nursing at the War, which was for her own good, since she is of
the kind who would never be happy leading a simple life, but
should be married.
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