And the man who beat her is Peter Morrison's architect, Henry Anderson, and he won by such a narrow margin that her plans were thrown out of second and third place, because they were so very similar to his.

Doesn't that strike you as curious ?" "That is more than curious," said Eileen slowly.

"That is a very strange coincidence.

They couldn't have had anything from each other, because they only met at dinner, before all of us, and Marian went away the next morning; it does seem queer." Then she added with a flash of generosity and justice, "It looks pretty good for Marian, at that.

If she came so near winning that she lost second and third because she was too near first to make any practical difference, I must be wrong and she must be right." "You are wrong," said Linda tersely, "if you think Marian cannot make wonderful plans for houses.