Renewal granted Mrs. Charlotte Southworth Lawrence for 28 years from Dec. 16, 1913.
DOROTHY HARCOURT’S SECRET.
Dorothy Harcourt’s Secret
CHAPTER I
EARLY IN THE MORNING
It was one o’clock on Christmas morning when the Christmas sleigh returned to the Wesleyan Flats, bringing Santa Claus and his two aides.
As soon as the three alighted, a man from the livery stable, who had been engaged to meet them at that hour, mounted the box to take the conveyance home; but not before he had received a liberal gift.
The house was all ablaze with light.
There had been Christmas Eve festivals in almost every suit of apartments in it.
Mr. Merritt lifted little Owlet—so tired and so sleepy, yet so divinely happy—and bore her into the house.
’Pollyon Syphax was on duty in the hall, and stared at the three figures in the black waterproofs that covered their disguises from head to foot.