“Billy! I’ll tell you what let’s do; we’ll make a circus ourselves!”
“Heavens to Betsey! We’ll do it!”
The “Lady of the Lake” was that moment deserted.
CHAPTER X
SIR THOMAS KATZENSTEIN
“BILLY, Flash is the cleverest cat ever!” May Nell exclaimed as she bounded in some days later.
The quarantine had been raised, and at night Billy had “the run of the house”; though his days were still spent in “the prison cell” as he called the dark room. It seemed to him that light came in with the little girl, and all the sparkle and fragrance of the young summer without.
“What new trick has Flash been up to?”
“You know that bad, old, half-tailed Tom that whips every cat in town but Geewhillikins and Flash and Sir Thomas—”