The latter shook her head. "I don't believe so," Mary Lee returned in the same lowered tone. "He hasn't had time to get her letter yet."
Jack was gone some time and when she returned she broke into a laugh. "Who do you think has come?" she said.
"Carter," cried the girls with one accord.
"You're way off," returned Jack. "It is Ko-yeda and her father with Toku. Miss Gresham couldn't come and so Ko-yeda said she would, at least Mr. Sannomiya was so good as to bring her. They know Miss Gresham and all the missionary people of her church, you remember, so here they are. Toku looked so cunning."
"Are you really going to take him back with you?" queried Mary Lee.
"Yes, for there are two Japanese girls going to the States and they will take charge of him on the ship and be glad of what I can pay them for doing it."
"But when you get back home what then?" asked Jean. "We can't take him to college with us."
"No, I shall hand him over to Carter and let him find somebody to bring him up in the way he should go."
"Poor Carter," said Mary Lee compassionately.
"You needn't 'poor Carter' him," retorted Jack. "He will just love to do it when I tell him that Toku is to be reared in such a way as will make him a good servant for us. It will give him a new interest and besides——" She broke off but added, "Oh, well, I understand Cart better than any of the rest of you do, and besides I would be pleased to pieces to do that much for him."