manner of promises to Frank, but when the moment arrived, he had
found the moment too important for any special reference to the
little bough above his head. Not so, however, Patty Coverdale.
"It's a shame," said she, bursting out of the room, "and if I'd
known what you had done, nothing on earth should have induced me to
go in. I won't enter the room till I know that you have taken it
out." Nevertheless her sister Kate was bold enough to solve the
mystery before the evening was over.