a beautiful bonnet, and she shall go with me
frequently to the fields. The old dear loves to ride. First thing I do
I'll call at the bank again and have our affairs properly straightened
and settled there in the light of the letter Daddy left me. Then I shall
have money to get all the furniture and the rugs and things we truly
need. I'll repaint the kitchen and get Katy some new cooking utensils to
gladden her soul. And Saturday I must make my trip with Donald account
for something worth while on the book."

All these plans were feasible. What Linda had to do was to accomplish
them, and this she proceeded to do in a swift and businesslike manner.
She soon reached the place where the whole house with the exception
of Eileen's suite had been gone over, freshened and refurnished to her
liking. The guest-room furniture had been moved to her rejuvenated room.
On the strength of her I returns from the book she had disposed of her
furniture and was finding much girlish delight in occupying a beautiful
room, daintily decorated, comfortably furnished with pieces of her own
selection. As she and Katy stood looking over their work when everything
was ready for her first night of occupancy Katy had said to her:

"It's jist right and proper, lambie; it's jist the way it ought to be;
and now say the word and let me clean out Eileen's suate and get it
ready for Miss Marian, so if she would drop down unexpected she would
find we was good as our word."

"All right," said Linda.

"And what am I to do with the stuff?" inquired Katy.

"Katy, my dear," said Linda with a dry laugh, "you'll think I am
foolish, but I have the queerest feeling concerning those things. I
can't feel that Eileen has done with them; I can't feel that she
will never want them again; I can't feel that they should go to some
second-hand basement. Pack all of her clothing that you can manage in
her trunk and put it in the garret, and what the trunk won't hold pack
in a tight box and put that in the garret also. She hasn't written me
a line; she has sent me no address; I don't know what to do; but, as I
have said before, I am going to save the things at least a year and see
whether some day Eileen won't think of something she wants to do with
them. Clean the rooms and I will order Marian's things sent."

According to these arrangements it was only a few days until Linda wrote
Marian that her room was ready for her and that any time she desired to
come and take po