The Golden Answer

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV It was the morning of the day of the play when the strange-looking letter arrived at the white house, in the lane. Harmony laid it at Amos's breakfast plate, looking curiously at the cheap paper and queer, straggling hand, that seemed to have miscalculated the distance on the envelope, and, having begun very large, ended in a cramped corner with a blot. She was pouring over the address with her finger on the blot when Amos came into the dining room. "Look," she said, "what a funny way to make an rpf | He stopped suddenly with an exclamation when he saw the child standing over that dingy letter, which looked out of place on their white cloth. He seemed about to snatch it from her. But instead he took it away gently, and put it, unopened, into his pocket. "Yes, Harmony," he said, "but you know som