BY
JANE D. ABBOTT
TO ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS I KNOW THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. KEINETH'S WORLD CHANGES
II. KEINETH DECIDES
III. OVERLOOK
IV. KEINETH WRITES TO HER FATHER
V. PILOT COMES TO OVERLOOK
VI. THE MUSIC THE FAIRIES PUT IN HER FINGERS
VII. ALICE RUNS AWAY
VIII. A PAGE FROM HISTORY
IX. THE CAPTIVE MAIDEN
X. PILOT IN DISGRACE
XI. PILOT WINS A HOME
XII. A LETTER FROM DADDY
XIII. CAMPING
XIV. THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT
XV. NOT ON THE PROGRAM
XVI. AUNT JOSEPHINE
XVII. SCHOOL DAYS
XVIII. CHRISTMAS
XIX. WHEN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT WORKED OVERTIME.
XX. SHADOWS
XXI. PILOT GOES AWAY
XXII. KEINETH'S GIFT
XXIII. SURPRISES
XXIV. MR. PRESIDENT
XXV. THE CASTLE OF DREAMS
Keineth Randolph's world seemed suddenly to be turning upside down!
For the past three days there had been no lessons. Keineth had lessonsinstead of going to school. She had them sometimes with Madame Henri,or "Tante" as she called her, and sometimes with her father. If the sunwas very inviting in the morning, lessons would wait until afternoon;or, if, sitting straight and still in the big room her father calledhis study, Keineth found it impossible to think of the book before her,Tante would say in her prim voice:
"Dreaming, cherie?" and add, "the books will wait!"
Or, if father was hearing the lessons, he would toss aside the book andbeckon to Keineth to sit on his knee. Then he would tell a story. Itwould be, perhaps, something about India or they would travel togetherthrough Norway; or it would be Custer's fight with the Indians or thewanderings of the Acadians through the English Colonies in America, asportrayed in Longfellow's Evangeline.
But for three days Keineth had had neither lessons nor stories--she hadnot even wanted to go out into the park to walk. For her dear Tante,with a very sad face, was packing her trunks and boxes, and Daddy hadgone out of town.
To-morrow the little woman was going to sail on a Norwegian boat forEurope. The trip seemed to Keineth to be particularly unusual becauseTante and Daddy had talked so much about it and Tante had waited untilDaddy had gotten her some papers which would take her safely intoEurope. So much talk and the important papers made it seem as thoughshe was going very far away. Perhaps she did not expect to come back toAmerica--she stopped so often in her work to kiss Keineth!
Keineth could not remember her own mother, she ha