The visitor had not been announced; the girl heard her at last walking about the adjoining room.

It was in an old house at Albany, a large, square, double house, with a notice of sale in the windows of one of the lower apartments.

There were two entrances, one of which had long been out of use but had never been removed.

They were exactly alike--large white doors, with an arched frame and wide side-lights, perched upon little "stoops" of red stone, which descended sidewise to the brick pavement of the street.

The two houses together formed a single dwelling, the party-wall having been removed and the rooms placed in communication.