sunlight, laughed exultantly at the exhibition.

Peter left them there, without one word or look for Cherry, who
went back to the house with her sister in a most agitated and
wretched state of mind. She had the telephone in her hand, to
cancel the engagement with her dentist, when Alix suddenly
consented to accompany her into town; "and at lunch-time we'll
take a chance on the St. Francis, Sis," Alix said, innocently,
"for Peter almost always lunches there!"

Feeling that the question was settled, yet restless and
unsatisfied still, Cherry dressed for town; they climbed into the
car; Alix's firm hands, in yellow chamois gloves, sparched at the
wheel; the die was cast.

Yet at the station another change of plan occurred, for as Alix
brought the car to the platform Anne came toward them from the
arriving train, a gloved and demure and smiling Anne, anxious, she
explained, to talk over this newest development, and "whether it
proved to be of any value or not," to try to find out what Uncle
Lee had really WANTED for them all, and then agree to do that in a
friendly manner, out of court. Alix turned from the wheel, to face
Cherry in the back seat, and Anne leaned on the door of the
tonneau.

"My first feeling, when Frenny told me," said Anne, chatting
pleasantly in the shade, "was one of such RELIEF! For I hadn't
wanted all that money one bit," she confessed, gaily. "I only
wanted to do what was FAIR. Only two or three nights ago I said to
Frenny that it really belonged to us all, and last night we talked