"Where Katy will rebel," said Linda to herself, "is when it comes
to gathering sufficient seeds and parching them to make these
meal and mush dishes. She will call it 'fiddlin' business.' She
shall be propitiated with a new dress and a beautiful bonnet, and
she shall go with me frequently to the fields. The old dear
loves to ride. First thing I do I'll call at the bank again and
have our affairs properly straightened and settled there in the
light of the letter Daddy left me. Then I shall have money to
get all the furniture and the rugs and things we truly need.
I'll repaint the kitchen and get Katy some new cooking utensils
to gladden her soul. And Saturday I must make my trip with
Donald account for something worth while on the book."
All these plans were feasible. What Linda had to do was to
accomplish them, and this she proceeded to do in a swift and
businesslike manner. She soon reached the place where the whole
house with the exception of Eileen's suite had been gone over,
freshened and refurnished to her liking. The guest-room
furniture had been moved to her rejuvenated room. On the
strength of her I returns from the book she had disposed of her
furniture and was finding much girlish delight in occupying a
beautiful room, daintily decorated, comfortably furnished with
pieces of her own selection. As she and Katy stood looking over
their work when everything was ready for her first night of
occupancy Katy had said to her:
"It's jist right and proper, lambie; it's jist the way it ought
to be; and now say the word and let me clean out Eileen's suate
and get it ready for Miss Marian, so if she would drop down
unexpected she would find we was good as our word.
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