"Yes, I mended it."
"And you had a message from Altair?"
"How did you learn that?"
"I felt it," she answered, gravely. "She said danger threatened—did she tell you what the danger was?"
"No; who is Altair supposed to be?"
"She is a very pure and high spirit—a girl of wonderful beauty—so they say. I have never seen her myself—she told me to-day that she would watch over you."
At this moment a whisper was heard in the air just above her head.
"Lucy!"
"Yes, father."
"Take the boy—sit—the old place. Leave Pettus out."