"Mom Beck's goin' to stay heah with me, too, while mothah an' Papa Jack go down South where the alligatahs live.

Then when they get well an' come back, Papa Jack is goin' to build a house on the othah side of the lawn.

I'm to live in both places at once; mothah said so." There were music and light, laughing voices and happy hearts in the old home that night.

It seemed as if the old place had awakened from a long dream and found itself young again.
The plan the Little Colonel unfolded to May Lilly was carried out in every detail.

It seemed a long winter to the child, but it was a happy one.