THE APPLE TREE GIRL
carelessly!) when she had asked about everybody else.
For the first time Aunt Grace showed signs of enthusiasm. "He's certainly a clever doctor," she said, "and knows just how to handle my neuralgia. Last May he cured Fred Waller of his jaundice; and you know Mrs. Latham, who was bed-ridden so long?—well, he had her up and out again in no time; and since then he's had nearly all the practice he can handle. Last month he rented Doctor Baldwin's old house, furnished, but he's still taking his meals at Mrs. Potter's."
With heightened color Charlotte started up the street toward Mr. Briggs' livery stable and, thinking of the things which her aunt had told her, she looked curiously at the big house on top of the hill where her pretty cousin lived.
"Poor Margaret!" she thought. "Willis has probably found her out. And when a man is attracted to a girl
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