No, you can believe what you like, but I'm satisfied at last that Peg is a witch and that skull of hers does tell her things.

She told me father was coming home and he come!" "How happy you must be," sighed Sara Ray romantically.

"It's just like that story in the Family Guide, where the missing earl comes home to his family just as the Countess and Lady Violetta are going to be turned out by the cruel heir." Felicity sniffed.
"There's some difference, I guess.

The earl had been imprisoned for years in a loathsome dungeon." Perhaps Peter's father had too, if we but realized it--imprisoned in the dungeon of his own evil appetites and habits, than which none could be more loathsome.

But a Power, mightier than the forces of evil, had struck off his fetters and led him back to his long-forfeited liberty and light.