CHAPTER VI.
EXPECTING "KIT" Mr.Robbins had answered the first letter from Delphi, under Kit's careful supervision, and the acceptance was couched in language ambiguous enough to please even her.
It aroused no suspicions whatever in the minds of Dean Peabody or Miss Daphne.

The only question was, who was to meet the child in Chicago.

The through express would leave _him_ there, and in order to connect with the Wisconsin trains it was necessary to make the change over to the Northwestern Depot.
Miss Daphne was far more perturbed over it than her brother.

One of the latter's favorite mottoes was inscribed in old English lettering over his desk: "_Never set in motion forces which you cannot control_." Having set in motion the coming guest, he believed firmly that an unfaltering Fate would direct his footsteps safely to Delphi.

Cassius Cato Peabody had been peculiar all his life.