CHAPTER V.
Mrs.Slater went away the next morning.

On the following day but one Miss Ludington received a letter from her.

She told her friend how glad she was that she had not postponed her visit to her, for if she had set it for a single day later she could not have made it at all.

When she returned home she found that her husband had received an offer of a lucrative business position in Cincinnati, contingent on his immediate removal there.
They had been in a whirl of packing ever since, and were to take that night's train for Cincinnati, and whether they ever again came East to live was very doubtful.

In a postscript, written crosswise, she said: "I have been in such a rush ever since I came home that I declare I had clean forgotten till this moment about my promise to hunt up Mrs.
Legrand's address for you.