RIVAL GIRLS Instead of Graydon there came a letter saying that he would be detained abroad another week.

The heat was oppressive, and the family physician said that little Jack should be taken to the country at once.

Therefore they packed in haste, and started for a hotel in the Catskills at which rooms had been engaged.

Graydon was to join them there as soon after his return as possible.
Madge looked wistfully at the mountains, as with shadowy grandeur they loomed in the distance.

There is ever a solemnity about mountain scenery, and she felt it as she passed under the lofty brows of wooded heights.