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afe delivery. Not until twenty-four hours after was Tory Drew permitted to call and find what the influence and effect of so unsatisfying a communication had been. She found Kara in the big room downstairs which had been given over to her use since her accident whenever she was living at the Gray House. When Tory entered the room Kara must have been re-reading the letters, since they lay open upon her lap. "You were not disappointed over our discovery, dear? The letters do mean something to you? You have the faith to believe that something important to _you_ will develop from them some day? I believe it if you do." Kara laughed. "Beloved Tory, if with all your imagination and sense of romance you could find nothing of value in the old letters why expect it of a practical, matter-of-fact, stupid person like I am? The letters are ridiculous to my mind so far as they are supposed to have any reference to me." Still the gray eyes were shining and to-day Tory beheld the half quizzical lines about the lips that belonged to the Kara of other days. "But if you have no faith in the letters, why do you seem so much happier and like your old self?" she queried. Her companion hesitated. "Hasn't Dr. McClain told you?" "He has told me nothing save that I might come to see you if I would not stay too long, which is the permission he gives to all our Girl Scouts." Kara's voice was steady with the old-time gentle drawl. "Promise me then not to expect too much or be too disappointed if things do not turn out altogether well? Of course I am happier to-day, happier than a dozen letters proclaiming me an heiress could ever make me. "Dr. McClain and two other surgeons who have seen me believe there is a possibility I may be well. They are not absolutely sure. Don't look so queer, Tory." "I don't look queer, go on," the other girl whispered, bending her face down so that her lips touched Kara's hair and her face could not be seen. "There isn't anything else to tell, except that I am to go to New York City to be treated and to spend the winter and that Mr. Fenton and Mr. Hammond and Dr. McClain and several other people have made the arrangements and will pay all my expenses." Here for the first time Kara's voice trembled. "Who says one cannot have beautiful things happen to one even if lost letters do prove disappointing?" She put out her hand and caught hold of her companion's. "Tory, you don't t
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