"Reba's work didn't stop there, Letty! There was so much that had to
be said between you and me, just now, that I couldn't let another
subject creep in till it was finished and we were friends;--but Dick
Larrabee saw Reba's card about 'the folks back home' in Chicago and
he bought a ticket for Beulah just as I did. We met in the train and
compared notes."

"Dick Larrabee home?"

The blood started in Letty's heart and sped hither and thither,
warming her from head to foot.

"Yes, looking as fit as a fiddle; the way a man looks when things are
coming his way."

"But what did the card mean to him? Did he seem to like Reba's
verses?"

"Yes, but I guess the card just spelled home to him; and he recognized
this house in a minute, of course. I showed him my card and he said:
'That's Letty fast enough: I know the cape.' He recognized you in a
minute, he said."

He knew the cape! Yes, the old cape had been close to his shoulder
many a time. He liked it and said it matched her hair.

"He was awfully funny about your ear, too! I told him I never noticed
women's ears, and he said he did, when they were pretty, and their
eyelashes, too.--Anything remarkable about your eyelashes, Letty?"