Then Miss Duncan's dignified assistant in English gave an unmistakable, though subdued, war whoop, and, seizing Grace by the hand, made for the stairs.

Grace needed no assistance.

An instant later they brought up at the foot of the stairs and made a simultaneous rush for a tall, plump young woman, enveloping her in a tempestuous embrace.
"I might have known you'd be the first," cried Grace with joyful affection.

"You must have taken a train in the middle of the night." "I did," returned J.Elfreda Briggs calmly.

"We are living in New York this winter, so Pa brought me to the station in his own pet car and saw me safely on my way.