k with her. I want you to
come to see where I live."

Eunice shook her head. "I should be afraid," she replied simply.

"But you are not afraid with me, Eunice," Mollie said. "If you will
promise to come to see us, when you are better, you shall stay right by
me all the time. Will you promise?"

"I promise," agreed the child.

"Naki is to let me hear as soon as you are well enough to leave the
hospital," said Ruth.

"O Ruth," whispered Mollie. "Eunice will have no clothes to wear up at
the hotel, even to spend the day. Shall I send her a dress of mine?"

"Eunice," Ruth asked, "do you know what a present is?"

"No," was the reply.

"Well, a present is something that comes in a box, and is soft and warm
this time," Ruth explained. "Eunice must wear the present when she is
ready to leave the hospital. When you are well enough to come to see us,
I am coming to the hospital for you. I am going to take you flying to the
hotel where we are staying, on the back of a big red bird."

"You make fun," said the Indian solemnly.

"You just wait until you see my motor car, Eunice!" cried Ruth. "It is
the biggest bird, and it flies as fast as any you have ever seen. So do
please hurry up and get well."

"I will, now. I did not wish to get well before," Eunice replied. "It is
cold and lonely up on the hill in the snow time."

CHAPTER XVIII

PLANS FOR THE SOCIETY CIRCUS

"Ralph and Hugh! I am so delighted to see you!" cried Mollie Thurston, a
few days later. She was alone in their sitting room writing a letter,
when the two friends arrived. "We girls have been dreadfully afraid you
would not arrive in time for our Society Circus. You know the games take
place to-morrow."

"Oh, it is a 'Society Circus' we have come to! So that is the name Lenox
has given to its latest form of social entertainment?" laughed Hugh.
"Sorry we couldn't get here sooner, Mollie; but you knew you could depend
on our turning up at the appointed time. Where are the other girls and
Aunt Sallie?"

"They are over at the Fair Grounds, watching Bab ride," Mollie explained.
"Ralph, I am awfully worried about Bab. One of the amusements of the
circus is to be a riding contest. Of course, Bab rides very well, but I
don't think mother would approve of her undertaking such dangerous riding
as jumping over hurdles. Ambassador Morton has told Aunt Sallie that
there will be no danger. He is used to English girls riding across the
country; and I know,