bureau. At the present boom for antiques
they would realize a very substantial sum, quite a windfall, indeed, for
Loveday.

"Will it be enough to send me to a horticultural college?" she asked
Miss Todd.

"Ample, my dear. It ought to bring you sufficient for a thoroughly good
training in any career you want to take up."

This was news indeed--so splendid that it seemed almost too good to be
true. Hilary's essay, which, as everybody expected, easily won the
prize, had indirectly made Loveday's fortune after all.

"I bless the day when I was a prisoner in the attic," rejoiced Diana.
"If I hadn't knocked that door in, the furniture might still have been
lying there in the dust."

"I wonder if _this_ was the discovery that gentleman wanted to tell
Father about," surmised Loveday.

Surprise came on surprise, for the very morning after this happy
solution of Loveday's future, Diana received a telegram from Paris. Mr.
Hewlitt had succeeded in getting three passages (thrown up at the last
by a family who were taken ill with "flu" and unable to travel); he and
Mrs. Hewlitt were crossing the channel post-haste, and Diana must start
from school and meet them in Liverpool. Loveday helped her to pack her
boxes. It was an excited, fluttered, tearful little Diana who clung to
her at the last.

"Sissie! I can't say 'Good-bye!' It's not 'good-bye' to _you_--only 'au
revoir'."

"We'll meet again some day, darling!"

"We'll just jolly well have to, or I'll know the reason why! If you
don't come out to see us in America I shall come over here and fetch
you. Write very often, and let me know how the baby goes on, and if it
has been taken into the Home. I haven't quite finished its frock. Will
you do it? Oh, thanks! I'm leaving the Abbey in as big a hurry as I came
here. Dad always uses his 'lightning methods'. But I shan't forget any
of you, ever--not you, Wendy, or Jess, or Vi. Write to me, won't you? As
for you, Loveday mine, I haven't words left. Let me give you one more
good hug! Yes, Miss Todd, I'm really coming. No, I don't want to miss my
train. Good-bye, everybody and everything! Good-bye! Good-bye!"

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