Heriot's Choice

Heriot's Choice is a Fiction Short Story Book. This book describes that Three short words, and yet they went straight to Milly's heart It was only the postscript of a long, sorrowful letter — the finale brief but eloquent — of a quiet^ dispassionate appeal ; but it sounded to Mildred Lambert much as the Macedonian cry must have sounded of old : Come over and help us'. Mildred's soft^ womanly nature was capable of only one response to such a demand. Assent was more than probable, and bordered on certainty, even before the letter was laid aside, and while her cheek was yet paling at the thought of new responsibilities and the vast unknown, wherein duty must tread on the heel of inclination, and life must press out thought and the worn-out furrows of intro- and retro-spection. And so it was that the page of a negative existence was turned; and Mildred agreed to become the inmate of her brother's home. 'Aunt Milly!' How pleasant it would be to hear that again, and to be in the centre of warm young life and breathless activity, after the torpor of long waiting and watcliing, and the hush and the blank and the drawn-out pain, intense yet scarcely felt, of the last seven years.