"There!" she said, when she had written the Gramercy Park address in
his book. "Anything you send here will always reach her, wherever she
is."

"And any answer she may care to make to me, if you'll address it to me
there," handing back her book to her, "will always reach me, wherever I
may be."


"It is a splendid game," he said when he was going, "and I'm glad you
let me play. If more people played this game, I'd find the world a lot
pleasanter place to live in."

"When you know the Secret you can show other people how to play," Mary
Alice suggested.

"That's so," he said. "Well, I shan't let you forget you are to tell
it to me."




VIII

LEARNING TO BE BRAVE AND SWEET

Godmother's charming drawing-room seemed intolerably empty when he had
gone and they two stood by the fire and looked into it trying to see
again the jungle scene he had pointed out to them in the bed of coals.
But the jungle was gone; the vision had faded with the seer. And