train, on a train, Peggy's joyous thought kept time to the sound of the wheels on the rails. After looking interestedly out for a few minutes on a barre

tant ears, "I hate to waken you, but open your e

erine and sank back in

h of the last words was accompanied by more vigorous sh

nes, turning staring mockingly at her room-mate. "Yes, you

make you wake up," declared Peggy serenel

going to be as soon as we get bac

indiff

Peg

ctionary,-maybe in the Latin dictionary, and then you'l

for breakfast when they hear the waiter crying out

that every other girl in the diner was eating exactly the same thing. For grape-frui

they'll all be down at the train, I wired them to. And how proud I'll be to show them you, Peggy, and tell them that you

peering eagerly out of the windows as they made their way to

there and her happiness in meeting with such friendly acceptance kissed them back with impartial enthusiasm, Katherine's mother and father, her younger sister, an aunt, and three "kid brothers"-t

nce but seemed to fit into the general atmosphere of comfort. Peggy, who had never visited in so wonderful a place before, danced from attic

now, Peggy," K

nt. "It certainly feels like it, and I love every darling

first time in her life Peggy helped to trim a Christmas tree, and wrap up such an eno

tmas supper, and afterward dancing and dancing and dancing un

on address on the outside. Katherine's was a woven gold chain with a delicate and beautiful pearl p

se, and then suddenly her face clouded. "We forg

get his grandson back for him and I guess that will mean more to him th

eggy, "do you think w

rine's father and mother believed in that sort of thing, but they actually knew people who seemed to, and they could see no harm in permitting the girls to go. But when the two daring experimenters with things yet to come had been conveyed by James,

ve to have vacations too. But it does seem heartbreaking that all our plans shou

baffled tears, "isn't there somebody

ht go first and then explain all about it and she'd understand our motive. Let's

d in inviting, bold type, "Madame La Mar, palmist and clairvoyant. I read the

he address to James, while she squeez

le apartment building, very different from and far less preposses

ich they might locate Madame La Mar's rooms. There was no lock system on the doors and no cards of residents. They went on into the main hall and saw a ro

knock?" ask

esitated Peggy. "Don't you think p

we wanted him for anything, and this apartment must face the street, so

great Madame La Mar herself, hearing their whispering voices, now threw it open and stood before them in all t

Her cheeks bloomed with an unnatural radiance, and her eyebrows were the longest and

neyed voice, "did

speechles

ry professional business-like quality now creeping in

eggy ans

or have you ever come to me b

ought-we thought you might b

id the woman vaguely. "Come in

floor like an animated mountain and, going over to a piano on which the dust shone, sat down and began to play a s

ercise and apparently completely oblivious of their presence and as thrilled by the feeble t

rls with a small smile. "I like music," she sa

em," whisper

ttle roundelay?" she

to say politely. "But we thought you

oman, as pleased as peaches. "Yes, in

roaned Katherine

ged, "I will read for you from the past, present or

ggy told her, "we thought you mig

us creature, "anything. But my

s all

n my right. I shall want you to keep very still and not disturb the workings of the supernatu

s effective as the other

as w

as good, you kno

me of these people in this town-limited, you know, to a single style. You can choose any sort whatever and it goes with me. I'm a woman

ggy. "And now suppose you tell us

atherine put in, "and

looking at the rather dirty red hands of the husky

o this with me, just as hard as you can," she urged, "and think with all your might about the question

ling, nerve-racking silence while the pr

that a faint film or cloud went across the glassy brightness of th

ld. "How can we find Mr. Huntington'

ly different from her own, the woman bega

d someway expected that Katherine burst out into hysterical laughter. "She could se

ly. "How can you expect me to find the future for a pack of la

ant to hear it, and we will perhaps believe it when we have heard somethin

hissed

pory went drifting across the clear crystal surf

girl-I

he window, but this time refrained from comment and held her breat

time ago-many years-rela

ne clutched at ea

e field. I see an initial-let's see what the initial is. Is i

y scream and the

olin. Also I see-" the voice rose excitedly, "a school lawn, a moon, this time it is warm, I do not understand i

ine, "she means the time

through with them, she was. Just as she was beginning to see something of interest they shouted at her and spoiled it all. What kind of spirits would remain in a room with two girls that acted like that? They could pay her their dollar apiece, they could, and go, and s

drew in great breaths when they were once more safe in the sunlight of the street. They stumbled forward toward the car, w

ndow of the room they had just quitted were the outlines of the great figure

tial from the door of yo

Baker Foster, and of course the seeress could have s

just as all the rest of her story seemed to have some truth in it, and if only my feelings hadn't gotten away w

ve to do to find him, friend Watson, is to go to all the men's colleges and walk through all the dorms until we come to a room from which the gentle tinkle of a mandolin steals forth-and then, and then-we knock on the door. Young Grandson answers it, an

on't know Young Grand

e college annuals. And we shall say, 'Why, here, what a strong resemblance this picture bears to Mr. Huntington, of Huntington House

ls alighted, in haste to tell all of Katherine's interested and som

ne that it must be all true, but that was the

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mselves away from the home that seemed now to belong to Peggy, too. So when they and their suit-cases were at last regretfully taken to the train by the entire family, the girls w