'
"I didn't know whether to be glad or sorry, but I wished him good
luck, an' he went back up North for his wife."
"That was Mamma, you know," Louise explained to Dora.
"I remember how Miss Zelie come to me, and says she, 'Mammy, do you
think she will love me?'
"About that time Miss Marcia took it into her head to go to Europe.
She said something about taking Miss Zelie along, but I up an' tole
her that where my child went I went too, an' she 'lowed she didn't
want me.
"It was the prettiest kind of a day when they came home, and we was
out on the porch watchin' for them. They drove up presently with your
grandpa, and Miss Elinor she came up the walk ahead of Mr. Frank,
smiling as sweet us could be, an' she says, 'So this is my little
sister.' I knew that minute they'd be friends.
"Your ma was dreadful fond of children, and she made a great pet of
Miss Zelie, and she was as happy as a bird."
"Isn't it interesting to think of Aunt Zelie being a little girl?"
said Bess; "but go on, Sukey, and tell about when Carl was born."
"Well, it did seem like she was just too happy when the baby came. He
was a fine child, and Miss Elinor said Miss Zelie might name him.
Well, she and your grandpa would sit and argue about that name, and
after I don't know how long they settled on William Carleton.
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