The storm was over by that time, but the air was oppressive, and the
heat great. Huldah walked along very soberly, for there was a sense
of depression weighing on her, a foreboding that an end was coming to
her happy, peaceful life. There was always trouble when any part of
her old life cropped up again.
She was ashamed, too, to be troubling Miss Rose again about her
affairs; she felt she had done little but bring trouble to them all
ever since she had walked into their lives that summer's night a year
ago. She who longed to bring them nothing but pleasure!
Just then she came to the top of the little hill up which Rob had
crawled that winter morning, and once again the words Miss Rose had
sung came back to her, as though they still lingered on the air
there,
"Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene,--one step enough for me."
Huldah sang them aloud as she descended the slope, and the load of
care slipped off her heart, leaving her with a brave determination to
face courageously whatever might have to be faced.
CHAPTER XI.
HULDAH'S NEW HOME.
And there was very much to be faced, she found as the days came and
went, for within a week of that afternoon when Emma Smith crossed her
path again, much had been discussed and arranged, and another change
was to come into Huldah's life.
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