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Painted the animal white snow white every bit of him! Then they took him to the graveyard and tied him to a tombstone!" "Oh, Daddy, how dreadful!" cried Alice. "Then what happened?" demanded Keineth and Peggy in one voice. "Well, a lot of things happened, and they happened fast!
Lee read to them the full account of the disaster which had stirred every nation of the globe. Billy and Peggy asked many questions, but Keineth was very silent. There were other little girls whose fathers had gone down into the sea her heart went out to them in deepest pity.
So Keineth was really going to see Mr. President! She felt very excited as she walked past the policeman guarding the gates and up the winding avenue leading to the great columns before the door. Through the branches of the trees the sun was shining slant-wise against the square-paned windows, making tiny sparks of fire. Another policeman at the door halted them.
She didn't care if Keineth did have a secret! And she had wonderful news, too! But Billy's morose bearing stirred her curiosity. "Did she tell you, Billy?" she asked. "I'll bet she hasn't got any secret that's worth knowing! And she needn't say she beat me at tennis, either." "Oh, Billy Lee, you let her beat so's she'd tell you! I'm just glad she didn't!
If the sun was very inviting in the morning, lessons would wait until afternoon; or, if, sitting straight and still in the big room her father called his study, Keineth found it impossible to think of the book before her, Tante would say in her prim voice: "Dreaming, cherie?" and add, "the books will wait!"
Then one evening there was a family council to decide just what they would do on Christmas. "We always do this," whispered Peggy to Keineth as they sat close together, "and then we always do just what Alice wants us to do, 'cause she's the baby." And Alice begged them all to hang up their stockings and to have a tree, if it was just a teeny, weeny one! "We'll do it," Mr.
Keineth drew in a very deep breath: as Peggy would say, "Who could believe that she was little Keineth Randolph?" When her father suggested that they let the sightseeing wait and take a walk, Keineth was delighted. She wanted more than anything else right then to talk and talk and talk to her daddy! There was so much to tell him! "We'll have plenty of time to see all the interesting things," Mr.
Keineth, looking down the length of the room, decked with the holly the children had fastened over doors and windows, thought that nowhere could Christmas be merrier than right there at the Lees! And what helped make the merriment was the comforting thought that Tim and his family were eating a Christmas dinner, too! At eight o'clock Peggy stole quietly to her mother.
Lee when Billy had finished. And Keineth whispered, "Goody, goody!" Mrs. Lee laughed. "I will say that he may stay here on trial while we're in the country. But, oh, dear I had hoped we'd never have another dog and of all things, a long-haired dog!" "Jim Archer said he was an Airedale," broke in Billy, proudly stroking the dirty head. "Pretty cheap for a dollar, I think!"
Keineth saw Mary detach herself from a small group, rush into the water tearing off her blouse as she did so. Then something went wrong Mary seemed to make no headway toward the man, the judges blew a whistle, the man who had jumped overboard climbed back into the boat; there was some laughter which others quickly frowned down. Peggy had drawn last place in the contest.
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