An onslaught was at once made
on Carry's office, two doors below Mrs. Hicks, for photographs,
plans of bungalows, shanties, White Mountain lean-tos, and the
like, and as quickly tucked under Ruth's arm and carried off, with
only the permission of the office boy,--Garry himself being absent
owing to some matters connected with a big warehouse company in
which he was interested, the boy said, and which took him to New
York on the early train and did not allow his return sometimes,
until after midnight.
These plans were spread out under the lamp on the sitting-room
table, the two studying the details, their heads together,
MacFarlane sitting beside them reading or listening,--the light of
the lamp falling on his earnest, thoughtful face,--Jack consulting
him now and then as to the advisability of further extensions, the
same being two rooms shingled inside and out, with an annex of
bark and plank for Ruth's horse, and a kitchen and laundry and no
end of comforts, big and little,--all to be occupied whenever
their lucky day would come and the merry bells ring out the joyful
tidings of their marriage.
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