“She didn’t have to walk,” explained Nan. “Just before it was time for her to go Mr. Batten called up from the lumber office. Daddy left word before he and mother went to Uncle Rossiter’s that Mr. Batten was to call up every day and find out if we were all right.
“So when Mr. Batten called, I told him about Dinah having to go down South where her husband, Sam, was sick, and Mr. Batten said he’d have one of the men stop around in an auto and take her to the station, and he did. So Dinah went down in style all right.”
“I’m glad of that,” Bert said. “But say, Nan, we’re almost all alone, aren’t we?”
“Yes, only Mrs. Pry left to keep house for us.”
“Oh, I guess we could keep house all by ourselves if we had to,” Bert said. “Don’t you think so, Nan?”
“I guess so. But is your head all right now, Bert?”
“Oh, yes, it doesn’t hurt at all.”
“Why do you s’pose it was that Danny Rugg went into the church?”
“I don’t know,” answered Bert, as he thought the matter over for a second or two. “Maybe he went in to see if he could mend the broken window so he wouldn’t have to pay for it.”
“How could he mend a broken window, Bert? It’s got all different colored pieces of glass in it. Danny couldn’t mend it, even if he could find all the bits of broken glass. They wouldn’t stick together.”