"I'm glad you read the letter to me, because it makes it seem as if Rose was right here."
"And almost before you know it, she WILL be!" cried Polly, with a gay little laugh.
"I'll have to run along now," said Lena, "because Rob gave me this note to take to Harry Grafton, and I said I'd rush over there to give it to him. I forgot all about it when I stopped to hear Rose's letter. I guess I'd have stopped just the same, if I'd remembered Rob's note!" she said, and her brown eyes twinkled, as she looked over her shoulder on her way down the path.
CHAPTER XII
GYP RUNS AWAY
Polly stood on the little bridge and watched Lena until, at the opening between the trees, she turned and waved her hand, and then ran out upon the road.
"I'll find Sir Mortimer, and tell him Rose is coming to see us soon," she said.
She ran along the path, out onto the avenue, then up the broad driveway of Sherwood Hall.
As she passed the holly-hocks, she saw the big cat lying in front of them, basking in the sun.
"Oh, Mortimer darling, you'll tan in that hot sun," she said, "but she sat down beside him, as if the sun would have no effect upon her.