come."

"Of course not, sir," said Bob genially.

And then he and Dorothy just glanced at each other and laughed with
a strange kind of joyousness that mystified the Dixons; but Eustace
looked hard at Nesta and nodded meaningly.

Bob's face was no longer haggard and drawn; it wore its old,
habitual expression of steadfast happiness.

The party did not break up till "disgracefully late," as Mr. Chase
put it. Peter was carried by his mother asleep to bed. The twins
and the Dixons felt so wide awake they fancied they would not close
an eye all night.

Mr. Chase laughed when he heard the story of the Sevres ornament.

"I'm not surprised you were startled," he said kindly; "but please
try to have something a little less valuable in your hands next
ghost you meet."

"Nesta," said Eustace, following his twin to her door, "what are
you going to do now? Shall you tell mother?"

"Tell mother what?" asked Nesta, with well-feigned astonishment.

"Why, that you are miserable, and won't stay, and all that stuff,"
was the reply.

"Of course not, silly," Nesta retorted. "Any one can see everything
is going to be quite different now Aunt Dorothy has come."

"Of course, silly," said Eustace, in a mocking tone, and they both
laughed.

"Good-night, you two," said a voice along the passage, and Herbert
turned off into his own room.

"I'm coming to brush my hair in your room to-night," said Brenda,
bearing down upon them, brush and comb in hand.

Eustace passed on.

"It is all different already," he said softly. "I think Bob has
been right all along--Aunt Dorothy has bewitched us, every one."

THE END.

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