I always sang them for father. I am
glad that I could do something for you, for you have all been so
wonderfully kind to me from the very first day that I came to Green
Valley. But why are you not kinder to Jim Tumley? Why don't you vote
the thing that is hurting him out of your town? If the women here
could vote that's what they would do. But surely you men will do it to
save Jim Tumley."
CHAPTER XVII
THE LITTLE SLIPPER
They sat stunned and stared at the slip of a girl in pink who was
speaking in so matter-of-fact a fashion.
And then Seth Curtis laughed; but he laughed kindly.
"Why," he shouted, "she can't only sing; she can preach too--woman
suffrage and prohibition."
The laugh grew and smiles went round and the whole trying situation
eased up. Jocelyn laughed too and turned to say good night to her
host. And from somewhere in the crowd Frank Burton strode up and
carried Jim out and drove him home.
Everybody began to get ready to go, glad that the evening so nearly
tragic had been happily saved. And all Green Valley mentally promised
to repay the girl who had had the wit and the sweetness to serve in an
hour of need.
But while the young people and the married ones with children were
crowding out through the front door, Grandma Wentworth was still in the
library, staring up into the laughing eyes of the dearest friend life
had given her and taken away.
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