! She prayed he would be tall like Martin, and have Lucy's eyes
and hair. Ah, what a delight she and Mary and Eliza would have bringing up
Martin's son and baking cookies for him!

It was just when she was mapping out the educational career of this same
Webster Howe and was struggling to decide what college should be honored
by his presence that Martin burst into the room. A guilty blush dyed
Jane's virgin cheek.

Martin, however, took no notice of her abstraction. In fact he could
scarcely speak coherently.

"It's all right, Jane," he cried. "I'm the happiest man on earth. Lucy
loves me. Isn't it wonderful, unbelievable? We are goin' to be married
right away, an' I'm to start buildin' the wall, so'st it will be done
before the cold weather comes. We're goin' to leave a little gate in it
for you an' Mary an' 'Liza to come through. An' we're goin' to put up a
stone in the cemetery to Lucy's aunt with: _In grateful remembrance of
Ellen Webster_ on it."

Jane sniffed.

"I can think of a better inscription than that," she remarked with
unwonted tartness, lapsing into Scripture. "Carve on it:

"He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his anger shall
fail."

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