motor car had stopped at their door, and Keineth knew that it was Aunt
Josephine!




CHAPTER II

KEINETH DECIDES


Keineth waited what seemed to her hours; then retraced her steps to the
house and walked very quietly into the hall. Daddy heard the door close
behind her and called to her from the study. He was sitting at his
desk, tapping the pad before him with the point of a pencil Aunt
Josephine sat on the old horse-hair sofa, looking very excited, and
Tante, a pile of books still clasped in her arm and a smudge of dust
across her straight features, stood near the window.

"I think it's high time you used a little sense in the way you bring up
that child, John. You'll ruin her!"

Keineth's father smiled across at Keineth as much as to say: "Never
mind, dear," but he listened gravely as his sister went on:

"I think it's the best thing that could happen--Madame Henri going away
and you called on this trip--"

"Wait a moment, Josephine; Keineth does not know yet--"