But still it was necessary for the gentleman to employ a gardener, one who loved flowers and had a taste for landscape gardening.
"I must advertise, Cecilia," he said one day to his wife; "I want exactly the right kind of a man for there is a great opportunity to improve and beautify the place."
While his papa and mamma were talking, Bertie sat on a cricket before a wooden chair which he had borrowed of Mrs. Taylor from the kitchen. Winnie was by his side, and he was teaching her to make a penny spin around so that it looked like a ball.
CHAPTER II.
THE SICK WORKMAN.
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Curtis noticed that their son listened to the conversation; but he did, and remembered it.