How to get an
education was the problem he was earnestly trying to solve, and lo! it
was now solved for him. For a moment the suddenness of the thing
overcame him, and he sat down upon a table in the yard, faint and
bewildered, while Arthur made his plan clear to Mrs. Crawford, saying
that what he meant to do was partly for Jerry's sake and partly for the
sake of the young girl who had been his early love.
'I always intended to take care of you,' he said; 'but things go from my
mind, and I forget the past as completely as if it had never been. But
this will stay by me, for I shall have Cherry as a reminder, and if I am
in danger of forgetting she will jog my memory.'
Fur a moment Mrs. Crawford could not speak, so great was her surprise
and joy that the good she had thought unattainable was to be Harold's at
last. And yet something in her proud, sensitive nature rebelled against
receiving so much from a stranger, even if that stranger were Arthur
Tracy. It seemed like charity, she said, when at last she spoke at all.
But Arthur overruled her with that persuasive way he had of converting
people to his views; and when at last he left the cottage it was with
the understanding that Jerry should commence her lessons with him the
first week in September, and that Harold should enter the High School in
Shannondale when it opened in the autumn.
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