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Rainbow Hill By: Josephine Lawrence (1897?-1978) |
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[Frontispiece: "THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE BEEN ON A FARM?" HE ASKED.] RAINBOW HILL
By Josephine Lawrence Author of ROSEMARY
Illustrated by Thelma Gooch
NEW YORK CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY Rainbow Hill
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PLANS
II LOOKING FORWARD
III RAINBOW HILL
IV FIRST IMPRESSIONS
V DAYS OF DELIGHT
VI WINNIE IS NERVOUS
VII AN ADVENTURE FOR SARAH
VIII STORM SIGNALS
IX ONE WISH COMES TRUE
X AN EVENTFUL DAY
XI ALL SERENE AGAIN
XII NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
XIII THE GAY FAMILY
XIV THE GAY FINANCES
XV THE POOR FARM
XVI SARAH'S SURPRISE
XVII WILLING AND OBLIGING
XVIII A NEW FRIEND
XIX JACK HIRED MAN
XX A LITTLE GIRL LOST
XXI DOWN LINDEN ROAD
XXII SARAH HAS AN IDEA
XXIII BONY JOINS THE CIRCUS
XXIV TRULY A SACRIFICE
XXV UP TO MISCHIEF
XXVI SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
XXVII SUMMER'S END
RAINBOW HILL
CHAPTER I PLANS Doctor Hugh leaned back in his swivel chair and looked anxiously at his
mother. "I don't believe you realize how incessant the noise will be," he
urged. "Every morning hammering and sawing and the inevitable shouting
and argument that seem to attend all building operations, especially
when the job is one of alteration, like this." "I shall not mind the noise, dear," said Mrs. Willis tranquilly. "Let
me see the plans again." She held out her hand for the blue prints and four interested heads
immediately bent above them, Rosemary being tall enough to look over
her mother's shoulder and Sarah and Shirley pressing close to her side. "I don't see how anyone can tell a thing from that," Rosemary
complained. "There's nothing but white lines." The doctor smiled, but his glance was on the frail, almost transparent
hands which held the roll of paper flat on the desk. "I suppose you thought that carpenters worked from photographs of
completed interiors, or illustrations in interior decoration
catalogues," he suggested good naturedly. "You see before you,
Rosemary, a most practical conception of two offices and a reception
room. Mr. Greggs will rip out one side of the house and add them on as
a wing and when the joining is painted over you'll think those rooms
were built when the original house was." "Well all right," conceded Rosemary, "I suppose Mr. Greggs knows.
Anyway, it will be fun to have something going on. Vacation certainly
isn't very exciting." "I want to see them rip the house," announced Sarah with intense
satisfaction. "I think I owe it to Mr. Greggs almost as much as to Mother, to have
you at a safe distance before the ripping begins," said Doctor Hugh a
little grimly. "Somehow I have the feeling, Sarah, that the best laid
plans of architects may go awry when you're about." "Huh!" retorted Sarah, abandoning blue prints for her favorite goatskin
rug on which she flopped in an attitude more comfortable than graceful. Shirley, too, wearying of the unfamiliar, turned to the delights of the
iron wastebasket into which she tried to wedge her plump self with
indifferent success and a great crackling of paper. Doctor Hugh began to sharpen a pencil with meticulous care, his dark
eyes behind their glasses apparently intent on the task in hand. But
the more discerning of his patients, and every nurse who had served on
his cases, could have told you that Doctor Willis always saw most when
he appeared to be quite absorbed. Even an outsider would have been interested in the group gathered in
the young doctor's office that summer afternoon. The little mother
(she was no taller than her oldest daughter and came only to her tall
son's shoulder) sat at one side of the flat topped desk, leaning her
head on one hand as she studied the plans for the addition to the
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