KIT RISES TO PROPHESY The morning after the fire found the family at breakfast over with the Judge's family.

It was impossible as yet for the girls to feel the full reaction over their loss.

As the Judge remarked, youth responds to change and variety quicker than any new interest, and they were already planning a wonderful reconstruction period.

Kit and Billy rode down on horseback to look at the ruins, and came back with an encouraging report.

The back of the house was badly damaged, but the main building stood intact, though the charred clapboards and wide vacant windows looked desolate enough.
"Thank goodness the wind was from the south, and blew the flames away from the pines," said Kit, dropping into her chair, hungrily.