"skrinkle up" again. "They could easily pass for sisters."

"I suppose that's why the Westabrooks have been so good to the
little Flynn girl," Mrs. Lathrop went on, "for they certainly are
very good to her. It is quite evident that Maida's clothes belonged
once to the little Westabrook girl."

"You are quite right, Mrs. Lathrop. They were made for the little
Westabrook girl."

Mrs. Lathrop always declared afterwards that it was the telephone
that really cured Laura. Certainly, it proved to be the most
exciting of toys to the little invalid. There was always something
waiting for her when she waked up in the morning and the tin boxes
kept bobbing from window to window until long after dark. The girls
kept her informed of what was going on in the neighborhood and the
boys sent her jokes and conundrums and puzzle pictures cut from the
newspapers. Gifts came to her at all hours. Sometimes it would be a
bit of wood-carving--a grotesque face, perhaps--that Arthur had done.
Sometimes it was a bit of Dicky's pretty paper-work. Rosie sent her
specimens of her cooking from candy to hot roasted potatoes, and
Maida sent her daily translations of an exciting fairy tale which
she was reading in French for the first time.

Pretty soon Laura was well enough to answer the notes herself. She
wrote each of her correspondents a long, grateful and affectionate
letter. By and by, she was able to sit in a chair at the window and
watch the games. The children remembered every few moments to look
and wave to her and she always waved back. At last came the morning
when a very thin, pale Laura was wheeled out into the sunshine.
After that she grew well by leaps and bounds. In a day or two, she
could stand in the ring-games with the little children. By the end
of a week, she seemed quite herself.

One morning every child in Primrose Court received a letter in the
mail. It was written on gay-tinted paper with a pretty picture at
the top. It read:

"You are cordially invited to a Halloween party to be given by
Miss Laura Lathrop at 29 Primrose Court on Saturday evening,
October 31, at a half after seven."

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But as Maida ceased gradually to worry about Laura, she began to be
troubled about Rosie. For Rosie was not the same child. Much of the
time she was silent, moody and listless.

One afternoon she came over to the shop, bringing the Clark twins
with her. For awhile she and