Take my offer, John, and help me to
put my money to use, so that the Master may receive His own with
usury, when he calls for it.
Yours in heart and soul,
HARLOW.
John answered this letter in person. He ran down to London by a night
train and spent a day with Jane and Martha and his uncle and aunt. It
was such a happy day that it would hardly have been possible to have
duplicated it, and John was wise to carry it back to Hatton untouched by
thought or word, by look or act which could in any way shadow its
perfection. He had longed to take his wife and child back to Hatton with
him, but Lady Trelawney was to give a children's May garden-party on
the eighteenth of May and Martha had been chosen queen of the May, and
when her father saw her in the dress prepared for the occasion and
witnessed her enthusiasm about the ceremony and the crowning of herself
queen, he put down all his personal desires and gave a ready consent to
her stay in London until the pageant was over. Then Jane dressed her in
the lace and satin of her coronation robe, with its spangled train of
tulle, put on her bright brown hair the little crown of shining gilt and
mock jewels, put in her hand the childish scepter and brought her into
the drawing-room and bade all make obeisance to her.
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