[CHAPTER XXXI.]
A STARTLING DISCOVERY.
"Let your summer friends go by,
With the summer weather;
Hearts there are that will not fly,
Though the storm should gather.
"Flowers of feeling pure and warm,
Hearts that cannot wither,
These for thee shall bide the storm
As the sunny weather."
—Frances Sargent Osgood.
It was not long after this that Mrs. Winans made the discovery that Mr. Stanley had come in as an office-holder under the new administration and that therefore he and his family were living in Washington. So with a definite purpose she called very soon on Miss Stanley, taking with her Ethel and Precious. The latter she had instructed to ask casually for Ladybird's address.
Precious was so eager over the matter that she soon asked the question in a thoroughly natural manner, for she loved Ladybird very dearly.
"Miss Stanley, I wish very much to have the address of my old friend, Miss Conway."