CHAPTER VI.
THE ENCHANTED NECKLACE.
Several days after Betty's arrival, the Little Colonel went into her mother's room with a troubled face.
"Mothah," she said, anxiously, "what are we goin' to do about the lawn fete at Anna Moore's this afternoon?
Elizabeth hasn't a thing to weah but that lawn dress that she has put on every evenin' since she came, and it isn't fresh enough.

I can't lend her anything because I'm not quite as tall as she is, and my clothes would be too short.

What is she goin' to do ?" "Ah, that is my secret, little daughter," answered Mrs.Sherman, with a smile.

"What do you suppose I spent that hot morning in town for, the day after she came, and why, do you think, have I driven over so many times to see Miss Dean?
I have made at least six trips there." "Was it to get some clothes made for Elizabeth ?" asked Lloyd.

A little expression of doubt showed in the anxious pucker of her forehead.