Poor Margaret did all in her power to make her scheme a success, but always she had that chilling doubt of her power.

Miss Martha Wallingford had impressed her as being a young woman capable of swift and unexpected movements.

She was rather afraid of her but she did not confess her fear to Wilbur.

When he inquired genially what kind of a girl the authoress was, she replied: "Oh, charming, of course, but the poor child does not know how to do up her hair." However, when Martha arrived Thursday afternoon and Margaret met her at the station, she, at a glance, discovered that the poor child had discovered how to do up her hair.

Some persons' brains work in a great many directions and Martha Wallingford's was one of them.