put them and her purse down into her bag.

Then she drew "The Dove in the Eagles' Nest" out of that capacious
receptacle (Miss Asenath had advised bringing something to read and
Arethusa had not read this particular romance for a very long while),
propped herself primly way over in the corner of her seat and prepared
to do just as she had been told.

But she was far too excited to do much more than just open her book.
The fortunes of Christina and her two sons in the free city of Ulm, as
so graphically portrayed by Miss Charlotte Yonge, could generally
transport Arethusa far from the everyday events of her own world into
the actual Middle Ages that was the scene of their happening; but
to-day.... They seemed to have lost a lot of this power; she could
hardly keep her eyes on the book.

The flying landscape outside the window fascinated her at first and
after awhile her fellow travellers claimed her attention, and proved
far more interesting than even that. Miss Eliza could have no possible
objection to her niece watching them if she sat very still.

There were not very many passengers when Arethusa got on; one or two
men in the other end of the car, and several women and babies. But as
the tram rushed ever nearer to Lewisburg, the passengers increased in
number.

A group climbed on at one of the way stations, and took a seat just
opposite Arethusa across the aisle, and they particularly attracted
her. It was composed of a woman who reminded her very strongly of Miss
Letitia in the round chubbiness of her face and her comfortable
untidiness, although she was undoubtedly much younger, and her two
children. The sex of one of them Arethusa was unable to determine just
at first, for it was so small that the cut of its blue raiment might
have served for either boy or girl; but the other one was unmistakably
of a feminine persuasion. This child had the lightest hair and eyebrows
the watcher across the aisle had ever seen, and the very palest of blue
eyes. So light were the eyebrows that only a close inspection later on
convinced Arethusa that there were any there at all.

These travellers had a great deal of baggage, several boxes and a large
telescope, as well as a huge satchel. The handle of the telescope had
been broken off at some stage of its career, and this deficiency had
been remedied by inserting under the leather straps still remaining, a
coat hanger covered with bright red silk ribbon gathered on and tied at