A VISIT WITH MRS. TENNEY
The letter-carrier came early, and Polly ran over to the Home in hopes to be first at the pile of mail on the hall table. She wanted to carry Mr. Parcell's note upstairs herself.
There it was, right on top, "Miss Alice Ely Twining"! Polly caught up the envelope with a glad breath. Then she went hastily through the rest and found a letter for Miss Sterling and one for Miss Crilly.
Mrs. Albright was in the corner room.
"I will deliver these now," she said, "before it is time for Miss
Sniffen."
"I'm afraid she'll catch you in there some day," Polly told her with a troubled little nod. "What if she should!"
Mrs. Albright laughed softly. "When I hear anybody coming I slip into the closet—I have done that several times already! I do hope this letter will do Miss Twining good. It looks like a man's handwriting."
Juanita Sterling looked doubtfully at the address on her own envelope, then she ran a paper-cutter under the flap.
"An invitation from Mrs. Dick for us all to spend to-day with her!" she announced disinterestedly.
"Oh, let's go!" cried Polly.