![]() ![]() It seemed as if the cares of life were getting almost too much for her, and the warm spring days mad. ![]() Mother hadn't been able to get up for a week. ![]() As she wrote, a vision of her mother's white face appeared to her between the lines, the mother weak and white, with tears on her cheeks and that despairing look in her eyes. Barnard wanted it to go in the next mail. ![]() Her fingers flew on with their work, for this was an important letter, and Mr. But it was only for an instant that she gave way. His absence gave Shirley a moment's respite from that feeling that she must keep strained up to meet his gaze and not let trouble show in her eyes, though a great lump was choking in her throat and the tears stung her hot eyelids and insisted on blurring her vision now and then. Barnard, the senior member of the firm, whose stenographer she was, had stepped into the outer office for a moment with a telegram which he had just received. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will. There was no one else in the inner office where she sat. 'The Enchanted Barn' by Grace Livingston Hill The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family find themselves in the countryside and after many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, the eldest child of the Hollisters, finds a way of renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. Shirley Hollister pushed back the hair from her hot forehead, pressed her hands wearily over tired eyes, then dropped her fingers again to the typewriter keys, and flew on with the letter she was writing. ![]()
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