"You be good to Herman, mama,
he didn't mean to make us so much trouble," and so old Mrs. Kreder,
held in what she felt was so strong in her to say to her Herman. She
just said very stiffly to him, "I'm glad to see you come home to-day,
Herman." Then she went to arrange it all with Mrs. Haydon.
Herman was now again just like he always had been, sullen and very
good, and very quiet, and always ready to do whatever his mother and
his father wanted. Tuesday morning came, Herman got his new clothes
on and went with his father and his mother to stand up for an hour and
get married. Lena was there in her new dress, and her hat with all
the pretty flowers, and she was very nervous for now she knew she was
really very soon to be married. Mrs. Haydon had everything all ready.
Everybody was there just as they should be and very soon Herman Kreder
and Lena Mainz were married.
When everything was really over, they went back to the Kreder house
together. They were all now to live together, Lena and Herman and
the old father and the old mother, in the house where Mr. Kreder had
worked so many years as a tailor, with his son Herman always there to
help him.
Irish Mary had often said to Lena she never did see how Lena could
ever want to have anything to do with Herman Kreder and his dirty
stingy parents. The old Kreders were to an Irish nature, a stingy,
dirty couple.
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