CHAPTER X
A VISIT FROM ERASTUS BEAN
It was yet early the next evening, soon after Dr. Dudley had gone for his usual round at the hospital, that Polly answered the doorbell to return with Erastus Bean.
Delight laughed from the little man’s weathered face.
“There ’tis, my dear! there ’tis!” he chuckled, carefully drawing a folded paper from an inner pocket. He put it in Polly’s hand with an impressive bow. “I hope it will make yer a millionaire,” he wished, “yis, I do!”
Polly thanked him, fingering the letter in a somewhat awed way, but not at all as if she were in a hurry to discover her chances towards millionairedom. Meantime Mrs. Dudley was seating the little man in the easiest chair.
Settling himself comfortably, with a profusion of acknowledgments, he rubbed his lean hands together with a reminiscent smile.
“I took Jane ridin’ in a autymobile this afternoon!” he announced.
“You did?” Polly burst out.