"See, folks are beginning to come."
I went out into the warm and rainy night, but there was no Cadge at the
_Star_ office. By the time I had returned with this information, the
eyry held a considerable gathering. Mrs. Baker had arrived, and her two
daughters; but I had no time to wonder at Milly's coming, for behind me
entered Mrs. Van Dam and then, among a group of strangers, I noticed
Hynes.
Involuntarily, at sight of him, my eyes turned to Helen; but not a muscle
of her face betrayed deeper feeling than polite pleasure as she helped
Kitty receive the wedding guests, greeting the General cordially, Hynes
with graciousness.
Kitty's welcome to Mrs. Van Dam would have been irresistibly funny, if I
had had eyes to see the humour.
"Cadge promised to be home early," she sputtered, "but probably she's
telling some one this minute: 'Oh, I'll be there in time; I don't need
much--not much more than the programme.'
"Can't _you_ guess where she is, Pros.?" she implored in an
undertone, as her brother approached us. "If the minister gets here before
Cadge does, I'll cut her off with a shilling."
"What an interesting place!" exclaimed Mrs.
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