you, Aunty?"

"Yes," and Miss Ames crossed the room to sit beside her. "And
I've an idea, Eunice; I'll take Ferdinand with me to-morrow!"

The butler, who was also Embury's valet and a general household
steward, looked up quickly. He had been in Miss Ames' employ for
many years before Eunice's marriage, and now, in the Embury's
city home was the indispensable major-domo of the establishment.

"Yes," went on Aunt Abby, "that will make it all quite
circumspect and correct. Ferdinand, tomorrow you accompany me
to Newark, New Jersey."

"I think not," said Eunice quietly, and dismissing Ferdinand with
a nod, she began serenely to make the tea.

"Don't be silly, Aunt Abby," she said; "you can't go that way.
It would be all right to go with Ferdinand, of course, but what
could you do when you, reached Newark? Race about on foot,
following up this clown, or whoever is performing?"

"We could take a taxicab--"

"You might get one and you might not. Now, you will wait till
San comes home, and see if he'll let you have the big car."

"Will you go then, Eunice?"

"No; of course not. I don't go to such fool shows! There's the