CHAPTER XXII.
SHEWING HOW MISS STANBURY BEHAVED TO HER TWO NIECES.
[Illustration] The triumph of Miss Stanbury when she received her niece's letter was certainly very great,--so great that in its first flush she could not restrain herself from exhibiting it to Dorothy.

"Well,--well,--what do you think, Dolly ?" "About what, aunt?
I don't know who the letter is from." "Nobody writes to me now so constant as your sister Priscilla.

The letter is from Priscilla.

Colonel Osborne has been at the Clock House, after all.

I knew that he would be there.