Doris of Dobbs Ferry Author:Carolyn Wells Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III DORIS ARRIVES FER the lan's sake, Judd, do hump yourself! It's after two now, an' I wish you'd hitch up an' get started. Doris said she'd get h... more »ere on that 3.15 an' you ain't got any too much time. An' remember, we must call her Mrs. Ballard. We ain't got no sort of call to say Doris to her." "That's so, Molly; Mis' Ballard it is. Hello, Mis' Busby, that you?" "Good land!" cried Molly, ungraciously, "you here again, 'Liza Busby? Well, now, what do you want?" "Oh, nothing," and Mrs. Busby passed by Molly, and went on to the library where she sat down as if with full intention of staying for some time. "I just thought to myself, I'd come over and be here when Mrs. Ballard arrives. I said to Mr. Stanch- ley I'd do that, and he said, 'Yes, do.' So here I "So I see," and Molly sniffed. "I s'pose Mr. Stanchley's got a right to send all the busybodies he likes," she muttered in a half aside, but her guest paid no attention to these murmurs. She took up a newspaper, and settled herself comfortably in a armchair to await the expected arrival. Judd drifted in with a remark to the effect that he s'posed he might as well be startin' and then a sudden noisy excitement took place in the old side yard, and, racing through the wistaria tangle, bounding across the porch and fairly catapulting in at the door, came two eager, agitated and loudly barking dogs, followed by a laughing girl who just barely managed to hold the animals in leash. "Be still!" she cried, stamping her little foot at her charges. Then, with a sunburst of smile that swept the whole of her astonished audience, she announced, "I'm Doris!" The Judds were bereft of all perceptive faculties. Petrified, they stood and stared, shrinking back a little from the persistently advancing dogs, but, w...« less