Uncle Isham took leave of him with much sadness, but did not ask him to stay; and Letty and Plez looked after him wistfully, still holding in their hands the coins he had placed there.
With the exception of these coins, the only thing he left behind him was a sealed letter on the parlor table, directed to the mistress of the house.
Toward the end of that afternoon, two women came along the public road which passed the outer gate.

One came from the south, and rode in an open carriage, evidently hired at the railroad station; the other was on foot, and came from the north; she wore a purple sun-bonnet, and carried an umbrella of the same color.

When this latter individual caught sight of the approaching carriage, then at some distance, she stopped short and gazed at it.

She did not retire behind a bush, as she had done on a former occasion, but she stood in the shade of a tree on the side of the road, and waited.

As the carriage came nearer to the gate the surprise upon her face became rapidly mingled with indignation.
The driver had checked the speed of his horses, and, without doubt, intended to stop at the gate.