EBOOK MISS MINERVA ***
MISS MINERVA AND WILLIAM GREEN HILL
BY FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN
MISS MINERVA and
WILLIAM GREEN HILL
CHAPTER I
A SCANDALIZED VIRGIN
The bus drove up to the gate and stopped under the electric
street-light. Perched on the box by the big, black negro driver
sat a little boy whose slender figure was swathed in a huge rain
coat.
Miss Minerva was on the porch waiting to receive him.
"Mercy on me, child," she said, "what on earth made you ride up
there? Why didn't you get inside?"
"I jest wanted to ride by Sam Lamb," replied the child as he was
lifted down. "An' I see a nice fat little man name' Major--"
"He jes' wouldn' ride inside, Miss Minerva," interrupted the
driver, quickly, to pass over the blush that rose to the
spinster's thin cheek at mention of the Major. "Twan't no use
fer ter try ter make him ride nowhars but jes' up by me.
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