Ils se retournerons,
Chacun sa queue apres lui."

Mrs. Dunlee and Kyzie were just behind the children, and while Bab was
repeating the verse Kyzie said in a low tone:--

"Oh, mamma, let me walk with you all the way, please. There's something
I want to talk about."

She looked so earnest that Mrs. Dunlee wondered not a little what it was
her eldest daughter had to say.




V

THE AIR-CASTLE


"A vacation school, Katharine? And pray what may that be?"

Kyzie's cheeks were flushed, her eyes shining. She held her mother's
hand and talked fast, though plainly she did not feel quite at her ease.

"Why, mamma, you've certainly heard of vacation schools--summer schools?
They're very common nowadays. In the summer, you know; so that college
people can go to them, and business people."

"Ah! Like the one at Coronado Beach? Now I understand. But it didn't