_each_--oh, which _should_ I say? Anyway, they're
acting just outrageous, and already they've earned
the name that the girls have given them. They call
them 'The Freaks,' and truly the name fits. They
speak of Patricia as 'the one with the queer
clothes,' and of Arabella as 'the medicine-chest.'

"She's taking more pills, I do believe, than she
ever did at home, and she wants folks to notice
that.

"The idea! I'm glad there are two _nice_ girls
coming from Merrivale, although you'd never think
Patricia ever _saw_ the place, for she talks of
nothing but 'N'York.' My brother Bob always laughs
about my long postscripts. It's lucky he can't see
this one!

"Lovingly,

"VERA."

Dorothy folded the letter, again placing it in her blouse, and then for
a time they watched the passengers.

Opposite them was a big woman, who possessed three bird-cages, two
holding birds, and the third imprisoning a kitten.

There was a lean man with a fat little girl beside him, who ate
countless lunches, which were packed in a big basket, that seemed a