y.

"Don't fuss, Bridget," consoled Grace. "The banshees didn't get me, and
you're going to ride home in an automobile. That ought to make you feel
better."

The prospect of the ride completely mollified Bridget, and by the time
they reached home she fairly radiated good nature.

"Your ideas of time are somewhat peculiar, Grace," remarked her mother
as Grace entered the living room, where her mother and father sat
reading. "If Bridget had not been with you I should have been most
uneasy."

But Grace was too full of her news to make other answer than cry out:

"Oh, mother, we found it! We did, truly!"

"What is the child talking about?" asked her father. And then Grace
launched forth with an account of her night's doings.

"Well, I never!" was all Mr. Harlowe could find words for when his
daughter had finished.

"What shall I do with you, Grace?" said her mother in despair. "You will
be injured or killed yet, in some of your mad excursions."

"Trust to me to land right side up with care," answered Grace
cheerfully.

"I'll call at the police station early to-morrow morning and have the
chief send some one up to that old house," said Mr. Harlowe. "From what
you heard the thief say, he must have a confederate. Perhaps the chief's
men will get both of them."

"Perhaps so," replied Grace, but she had a shrewd idea as to who the
confederate might be, and felt that if her suppositions were correct
there was not much chance of his incriminating himself.

CHAPTER XXII

GRACE AND ELEANOR MAKE A FORMAL CALL

Before recess the next day the news that Grace Harlowe and Eleanor
Savelli had been seen in earnest conversation together traveled like
wild fire around the study hall. The members of the Phi Sigma Tau could
scarcely believe their eyes, and when at recess they sought for
enlightenment, Grace would give them no satisfaction save that she and
Eleanor had really become friendly again.

"I love you all dearly, but I can't tell you about it yet, so please
don't ask me. When I do tell you, you'll understand and be as glad as I
am," she informed them affectionately, and with this they were obliged
to content themselves.

At one o'clock that afternoon Grace was summoned from the study hall,
and her friends' curiosity went up to the highest pitch and did not in
the least abate when Eleanor Savelli was also excused and hurriedly
followed Grace out.

"This must mean that they have caught him," said Eleanor,