LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Betty drew closer to her mother’s side as she stood speechless before the beautiful tree] Frontispiece PAGE [Oh, Betty, what a beautiful cutter! May exclaimed] 7 [Hello, girls, he called, as his smiling face appeared in the doorway] 14 [Betty threw a sofa-pillow at Jack to stir him to greater enthusiasm] 31 [Why, Grandfather, I—I ran away!] 72 [On Saturday a messenger was sent with the precious box] 89 [Constance in the May Queen’s bower] 113 [Bob Carey as the lion in “March” selling marches] 120 [These two young women sat behind me in the street-car and overheard my conversation with a friend] 128 [Betty snatched up the desk calendar and held it before her grandfather’s eyes] 145 [Take my racket, said Betty, and play a set with Martha] 161 [Betty found Bobby in his nursery] 170 [Betty walked across the room with stiff, stagy strides] 179 [The Goddess of Honor placed the chaplet on the bowed head of Isabella of Spain] 197 [Where’s Betty! said Jack, wrapped in his Indian blanket] 214 [They went spinning away toward the Pine Hill road] 221 [He stopped his team, and waited as Betty came down the steps] 229 [Betty, with her sleeves rolled back, was whisking away at something in a bowl] 243 [The girl turned on Betty like a little fury] 260 [Just as the driver was about to start, a voice called, Hi! Hold on there!] 265 [A strange-looking, cloaked figure, with a lighted Jack-o’-lantern for a head, ushered them into the drawing-room] 279 [The three Fates ushered Betty with great pomp and ceremony to the chair facing the wizard] 285