embroidered petticoat, the second best white dress, and a most
becoming sailor hat. These she made into a parcel and carried to
the wash room, brought in the telescope and packed it, hiding it
under a workbench and covering it with shavings. After that she
went to her room and wrote a note, and then slept deeply until the
morning call. She arose at once and went to the wash room but
instead of washing the family clothing, she took a bath in the
largest tub, and washed her hair to a state resembling spun gold.
During breakfast she kept sharp watch down the road. When she saw
Adam, 3d, coming she stuck her note under the hook on which she
had seen her father hang his hat all her life, and carrying the
telescope in the clothes basket covered with a rumpled sheet, she
passed across the yard and handed it over the fence to Adam,
climbed that same fence, and they started toward Hartley.

Kate put the sailor hat on her head, and sat very straight, an
anxious line crossing her forehead. She was running away, and if
discovered, there was the barest chance that her father might
follow, and make a most disagreeable scene, before the train
pulled out. He had gone to a far field to plow corn and Kate
fervently hoped he would plow until noon, which he did. Nancy
Ellen washed the dishes, and went into the front room to study,
while Mrs. Bates put on her sunbonnet and began hoeing the
potatoes. Not one of the family noticed that Monday's wash was
not on the clothes line as usual. Kate and Adam drove as fast as
they dared, and on reaching town, cashed the check, decided that
Nancy Ellen's hat would serve, thus saving the price of a new
one for emergencies that might arise, bought the shoes, and went
to the depot, where they had an anxious hour to wait.