Coming out of the cabin they could see Dr. McClain, Miss Frean and Sheila Mason. Dr. McClain, assisted by the two women, was bearing Kara in his arms.
Before Margaret and Tory reached them, he had placed Kara in his motor car and they were driving away.
CHAPTER IV
RIGHT ABOUT, FACE
Tory toiled up the long, hot street, her arms filled with packages, her face flushed.
How different the atmosphere from the cool green shade of Beechwood Forest!
At the end of the street upon a rise of ground stood the Old Gray House. This had been Katherine Moore’s name for the house, accepted and used by the town of Westhaven. To-day it appeared what it actually was: the village orphan asylum.
No longer could Kara’s optimism conceal reality from Victoria Drew.