He must take up his burden alone -- he must try to be a better , a more watchful father -- he must tell his children not to be afraid to come to him with all their little problems . Then he lighted his lamp and took up a bulky new book which was setting the theological world by the ears . He would read just one chapter to compose his mind . Five minutes later he was lost to the world and the troubles of the world . CHAPTER XXIX . A WEIRD TALE On an early June evening Rainbow Valley was an entirely delightful place and the children felt it to be so , as they sat in the open glade where the bells rang elfishly on the Tree Lovers , and the White Lady shook her green tresses . The wind was laughing and whistling about them like a leal , glad-hearted comrade . The young ferns were spicy in the hollow . The wild cherry trees scattered over the valley , among the dark firs , were mistily white . The robins were whistling over in the maples behind Ingleside . Beyond , on the slopes of the Glen , were blossoming orchards , sweet and mystic and wonderful , veiled in dusk . It was spring , and young things MUST be glad in spring . Everybody was glad in Rainbow Valley that evening -- until Mary Vance froze their blood with the story of Henry Warren 's ghost . Jem was not there . Jem spent his evenings now studying for his entrance examination in the Ingleside garret . Jerry was down near the pond , trouting . Walter had been reading Longfellow 's sea poems to the others and they were steeped in the beauty and mystery of the ships . Then they talked of what they would do when they were grown up -- where they would travel -- the far , fair shores they would see . Nan and Di meant to go to Europe . Walter longed for the Nile moaning past its Egyptian sands , and a glimpse of the sphinx .
Faith opined rather dismally that she supposed she would have to be a missionary -- old Mrs. Taylor told her she ought XXXXX be -- and then she would at least see India or China , those mysterious lands of the Orient .
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