e written there?"

Judith shrugged uneasily.

"That gives me the creeps," she remonstrated. "I don't like it. It
sounds like funerals and ghosts----"

Patricia broke in on her dismal forebodings with a rippling, silvery
laugh.

"It sounds like wedding bells to me!" she cried, gayly. "You and I
don't hear alike, Ju. It sounds like wedding bells, and commencement
essays, and checks for stories, and--and--and----"

"What, else?" demanded Judith, whose color had been rising at the
alluring forecast. Patricia made a despairing little gesture. "I
can't think of anything that will fit poor me," she confessed with mock
dejection. "I'm so everlastingly commonplace that I don't sound at
all."

"Yes, you do, too!" cried Judith ardently, flinging out a masterpiece.
"You sound like a _syncopated opera_; doesn't she, Bruce?"

Patricia started as the grotesque words sank deep.

"You just wait till _I_ try my real wings," she said with a queer
little catch in her throat. "I've forgotten all about my dear music in
these three riotous months, but I'll soon be ready to begin again."

"Is your laurel wreath on good and tight, Judy?" asked Bruce with a
twinkle. "I'm going to beg Elinor to have hers tied on with nice
little blue ribbons. Miss Pat is on the rampage for fame, and it isn't
safe to take chances."

Patricia underwent a swift change as she lifted her shining eyes to
Bruce's laughing face.

"Pooh, I'm not a bit dangerous and you know it, Bruce Haydon," she said
with returning gayety. "I'm the family grub, and Judy and Elinor are
the splendid butterflies." She paused with a merry gurgle. "I'm going
to raise chickens for these two glittering geniuses. Greycroft shall
be my field of conquest and the white plume that leads to victory will
be an Orpington. Lead on!"

The door clicked behind them and they set their faces to the sunset,
and Greycroft, and home.

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