d Dorothy, as the major stood looking lovingly at
her, "come on."

She led him to the stable, where the old horse Jeff stood waiting to
take his part in the important work.

"Let's hitch up and drive over to Blenden. We can make it before dark,
and I want to be the first to tell Mrs. Harriwell. I could never
trust to a message."

With a word to Mrs. Markin, the major agreed. It was not so long a
journey when the straight road was taken--it was the turns and twists
that led every one astray. But Major Dale knew the road, and he and
Dorothy went merrily on, with words of love and tenderness that only
such a father and daughter know how to exchange.

Dorothy learned that the boys, Roger and Joe, had not heard a word of
her trouble, and she at once determined not to tell even her father
all that she had suffered. She had to explain, of course, about being
in the sanitarium, but about the Hobbs imprisonment, she decided to
say nothing.

Reaching the sanitarium, Dorothy shuddered as she asked the guards at
the gate if she might see the superintendent, but when the man doffed
his cap to the distinguished looking major, Dorothy again gained her
composure.

Mrs. Harriwell sat in the hall, and was evidently much distressed.

Dorothy stepped up to her, and the woman started.

"Molly!" she gasped. Then she saw her mistake.

"But we have come to take you to Molly," said Dorothy, "and I want to
be the first to tell you the good news! Molly is better!"

"Better!" repeated the woman vaguely, the deep lines of trouble
shadowing her pale face.

"Yes, she wants to see you--she knows all about everything----"

"Your daughter, madam," said Major Dale, "has recovered her reason."

"Impossible!" gasped the poor mother.

"Not at all," declared the major. "But come along, and you will see
for yourself."

An attendant had stepped up, and was looking curiously at Dorothy. She
took her father's hand.

"Any word?" asked the nurse.

"Not for you," replied Mrs. Harriwell with dignity, "I find there are
better places than sanitariums for--nervous girls. Come along, sir.
Thank you," as she took the major's arm, and left the place.

How that mother listened to Dorothy's words! That her daughter had
talked as Dorothy said, that she was at a nearby camp---- Oh, it was
good news indeed!

"And she is going to stay with us," Dorothy warned her. "We will not
let her go to any more hospitals."

"Never!" exclaimed the mother firmly. "