"I've just been reading a story about a family spectre. I think they're most interesting."
"Well, we'll cut out the spook show. I've no liking for clanking chains and hollow groans!"
* * * * *
Impatiently Patty waited for the answer to her letter, and one day it came.
Farnsworth was in New York on business, and so she put it away unopened until his return.
"Goody girl!" he cried, when she told him. "Nice of you, dear, to let us have the first reading together."
"Oh, I couldn't gobble it up alone,—I like everything better if I have it with you."
And so they sat side by side on the porch, and read the long looked for missive.
* * * * *
"DEAR COUSIN PATTY;" it began.