Mr. Lockwood. "You are more than
welcome, girls, to all I have. And--possibly--I might look about and get
a little more money for you to use, as time goes on. If you need it----"

"We know all about it, Papa," chimed the twins. "We are satisfied."

"Does that mean you are satisfied to remain here, Dora?" demanded their
aunt, insisting upon speaking as though but one girl heard her.

"We are both satisfied," chorused the twins, quickly.

"But I am _not_ satisfied with the affair," declared Aunt Dora. "It has
long been both my intention and desire to take my namesake--my
godchild--away from here. While you two girls were small it was all very
well to declare it cruel to separate you. But you are old enough
now----"

"We shall never be old enough, Auntie, to wish to be separated," said
one of the twins.

"Nonsense, child!" exclaimed Aunt Dora, her eyes sparkling as she
thought she had at last obtained an inkling to the identity of the two
girls. "You will soon get over all that, Dora--of course you will."

"I am sure I should not so soon get over separation from my sister,"
said the other girl.

Her aunt wheeled on this one. "Do you mean to tell me that you scorn my
offer?"

"If I were Dora I should beg to be excused," returned the niece to whom
she had spoken.

Aunt Dora whirled again and transfixed the other with decided
satisfaction and a sparkling eye.

"But Dora, I feel sure, will go with her aunt gladly," cried the lady.

"If I were Dora I should beg to be excused," repeated the girl at whom
she looked, in exactly the same tone, and with an unmoved countenance,
too.

"I declare!" gasped Aunt Dora, in complete exasperation. "You've managed
to get me puzzled, now. Which--which of you is t'other?"

"That is for you to find out, Auntie," said both girls in unison.

"You saucy minxes!" began the lady, but one of the girls said, quickly:

"Oh, no. We don't mean to be saucy. But we have agreed not to tell on
the other. Father leaves it to us and to you, Auntie. Neither of us wish
to leave our dear, dear home. Therefore we shall not tell you which is
Dora, and which is Dorothy."

"That is quite true, Auntie," said the other twin.

"Well, I declare to Nature!" exclaimed their Aunt "Here I come offering
Dora everything that a girl of her age should count as worthy--a home of
wealth, a better education than she can get here in Centerport--college
to follow--the open sesame into society--real society----An