THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1375 
The Regeneration of Sarah 
By Beulah Heaston and Anna Nixon 
CHAPTER VII. 
She came in from the porch after Dick 
had gone one evening a week or two 
later, and hurried to her room, paying 
no heed to Alice, who called to her as 
she passed. She sat by the open win¬ 
dow, resting her cheek on her palm, and 
looked out into the night. Dick had 
asked her to marry him and she had 
refused—she had realized in a sudden 
awakening that she never could marry 
him. She saw things in a different light 
from ever before; and with this clearer 
vision had come a knowledge of her real 
self. But it was too late now, she as¬ 
sured herself; she had trifled with Rob¬ 
ert too long—she was convinced that he 
had ceased to care for her; he actually 
avoided her now. 
It was not because Robert had ceased 
to care, that he avoided Sarah; but he 
probably would have gone away as he 
had planned if it had not been for Joe. 
Robert was plowing in a field next to the 
Willard farm the day after Sarah had 
refused Dick. He was interrupted by 
a loud “Hello !” and looking up from his 
work, saw Joe perched on the line fence, 
filling his pockets with wild plums from 
a tree which grew in the fence-row. 
Robert was about to drive on after 
they had chatted for a few minutes, but 
Joe detained him. “Say, Rob, I know 
something,” he said, with an air of mys¬ 
tery and importance. Wishing to tease 
Joe, Robert feigned indifference; but Joe 
could not keep the secret any longer. 
“Sarah turned Dick down last night,” 
he announced with an impish grin. 
"She did! How do you know?” 
“Uh-huh—he as! ed her to marry him 
—I heard every word. Gee! but Sarah’d 
be mad if she knew I’d listened. I’d 
never dare tell it to anyone but you. 
Say, you won’t give a fellow away, will 
you?” he said anxiously, when he found 
that Robert did not share his amuse¬ 
ment at the news. “I s’posed you’d like 
college—and Margaret and Joe. after a 
while,” Alice argued. 
“Don't worry about me,” put in Ben 
cheerfully. “I’ll go to college some time. 
And it will be a good while before Mar¬ 
garet and Joe are ready.” 
“You don’t need to think we’re going 
to let you keep on sacrificing yourself 
for us,” said Margaret. “Sarah and I can 
manage fine.” 
“You’ll have to consent, Alice,” 
laughed the doctor, who saw that his bat¬ 
tle was won. “I see they’re all anxious 
to be rid of you.” 
Alice smiled at this, but grew serious 
again in a moment. “But Sarah, have 
you thought what it will mean to you? 
You would be tied down here for years—• 
and you know you hate farm life.” 
“I—I’ve changed my mind about that,” 
said Sarah, blushingly. She hesitated a 
little, then continued: “I rather ex¬ 
pected this; and next Summer—if we’re 
out of debt by that time, and I think we 
will be—Robert and I are going to be 
married—And if you don’t mind, we’ll 
take charge of the farm until Ben is 
through college..” 
As Sarah outlined her plans and the 
others joined with enthusiasm in discus¬ 
sing them, Joe gazed contemplatively 
down the road and finally mused to him¬ 
self, “And to think—she could have had 
Dick if she’d wanted him! I s’pose I'll 
never get another ride in that auto, 
now.” 
—THE END.— 
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to know about it.” 
“Hm—well, it was all right to tell me 
about it,” Robert replied with a judicial 
air. “And I won’t mention it to Sarah 
if you’ll promise not to do any more 
listening around corners,” he said, look¬ 
ing hard at Joe. “It’s not polite, and 
it’s apt to get you into no end of trou¬ 
ble,” and Robert drove on, leaving Joe 
greatly astonished at the unexpected ef¬ 
fect of his news. 
John Armstrong’s visits had not ceased 
when all need for his professional ser¬ 
vices were past, and Alice perceived with 
a mixture of happiness and dismay that 
he was monopolizing as much of her 
time as he had before she had returned 
his ring. • She refused to let herself 
think about the consequences, and let 
matters drift along as they would, until 
one Sunday afternoon, early in Septem¬ 
ber, when he insisted on the renewal of 
their engagement. 
Alice gave him only a vague promise. 
She told him, as before, that she would 
make no plans for her own future, be¬ 
cause she still felt her responsibility for 
the rest of the family. 
They had gone to the orchard for a 
walk, and when they returned, found 
the others, with Robert Allen, on the 
porch. As he and Alice joined them, a 
daring thought suggested itself to the 
doctor. “Say,” he began, seating him¬ 
self on the porch railing, “don’t you 
think the rest of you could manage the 
farm without Alice?” 
Alice was completely taken by sur¬ 
prise, and entered an embarrassed pro¬ 
test ; but the doctor went on, and in a 
manly, straightforward way, explained 
the situation. 
“Of course we can get along—haven’t 
we been doing it for the last two 
months?” Sarah promptly replied. “Alice 
herself admits that in some ways I’ve 
managed better than she did. She has 
sacrificed herself long enough for the 
rest of us. It’s my turn, now; I can’t 
take Alice’s place—I— don’t suppose I’ll 
ever be as good and unselfish as she has 
been—but I mean to do my best.” 
“I know—you’re doing splendidly, 
Sarah—but we’re Still in debt; and we 
must plan some way for Ben to go to 
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