CHAPTER XXI

CONCLUSION

An ordinary train pulled in on an ordinary day at the Old Chester station. A man and a girl, with soft brown eyes blurred by unshed tears, entered the Pullman car and took the seats that the porter showed them. Then the car started again, and the girl leaned out of the window.

"They are all there," she said. "Harry, Mrs. Todd, Mildred and Alice, and Martha. I can't believe I'm really going away from them."

"But you are, little sister of mine; you are going to a brand new world, and I am anxious to hear what you and another little sister of mine are going to do in it."

"It's more her world than mine," the girl reminded him.

"Yes, just as this was more your world than hers, but she came to your world and liked it," the man replied. "Just as you are going to like her world."

"And before you know it, both worlds are going to be 'our world.'"

The girl, who was Janet, looked out of the window and smiled, and the train seemed to hurry them along.

THE END

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