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His Sister BY MARY APPLEWHITE BACON `` But you could n't see me leave , mother , anyway , unless I was there to go . '' It was characteristic of the girl adjusting her new travelling-hat before the dim little looking-glass that , while her heart was beating with excitement which was strangely like grief , she could give herself at once to her stepmother 's inquietude and turn it aside with a jest . Mrs. Morgan , arrested in her anxious movement towards the door , stood for a moment taking in the reasonableness of Stella 's proposition , and then sank back to the edge of her chair . `` The train gets here at two o'clock , '' she argued . Lindsay Cowart came into the room , his head bent over the satchel he had been mending . `` You had better say good-by to Stella here at the house , mother , '' he suggested ; `` there 's no use for you to walk down to the depot in the hot sun . '' And then he noticed that his stepmother had on her bonnet with the veil to it -- she had married since his father 's death and was again a widow , -- and , in extreme disregard of the September heat , was dressed in the black worsted of a diagonal weave which she wore only on occasions which demanded some special tribute to their importance .