After a little she wiped her eyes, and brokenly laughed at herself; and then, a sound coming through the window, she started to her feet.

"That is Dr.Gilmer! I hear his horse at the gate.

Joab must have met him upon the road!" "Joab ?" "Mr.Rand's servant." "You appear," said the Major, "to know a deal more than I do about Mr.
Rand.

Where did you learn so much ?" Jacqueline, halfway to the door, turned upon him her candid eyes.

"Don't you remember ?" she answered, "the month that I spent, summer before last, at Cousin Jane Selden's, on the Three-Notched Road?
I saw Mr.Rand very often that summer.