When, later on, she saw the three editors coming--Mr.Walsey, of _The Spy_, and Mr.Jones, of _The Observer_, and young Joe Bemis, of _The Star_, on his bicycle--she watched jealously to see if they were admitted.

When Fanny's head disappeared from the eastern window she knew that Eva had let them in and Fanny was receiving them in the parlor.

"She will tell them all about the words they had last night, that made the dear child run away," she thought.

"All the town will know what doings there are in our family." Mrs.Zelotes made up her mind to a course of action.

Each editor was granted a long audience with Fanny and Eva, who entertained them with hysterical solemnity and displayed Ellen's photographs in the red plush album, from the last, taken in her best white frock, to one when she was three weeks old, and seeming weakly and not likely to live.