"What do you think?" she asked, when she had finished. "Elinor is going to stay over at York on her way to the mountains. She is to be at the Hotel for a day or two. Oh, I wish that she could stay here! What do you think, mamma? she could be comfortable in my room, and I would take the little one next."
"Certainly, my dear, you may ask her as soon as she arrives. When does she arrive?"
"Why, it must be to-day--for this is Thursday. I wonder why the letter was so slow. I'll go over as soon as the work is done."
Now it happened that Elinor herself made the first visit, as she had come in from Portsmouth on an early train. After they had talked of other things for half an hour, Martine told Elinor of their excitement of the evening before.
"Are you sure he didn't take anything?" asked Elinor. "I should think you wouldn't have slept a wink. I should have been awake all night after such a fright."
"I can't say I was frightened; it seemed rather funny. Do come upstairs with me now. I must see what the man left behind."
"Why, Martine, what is this?" she cried, raising the white skirt "It is--why, it must be the gown I lost Class Day--and this--it really is my trunk," and she gave Martine a severe glance as she bent toward a small trunk in the corner.
"Nonsense," cried Martine. "That is a skirt the burglar left, part of his 'booty,' as Angelina calls it, and this is one of our packing trunks. It has been here all summer."
"But it has my name on it," protested Elinor.
Martine shook her head. Elinor's manner reminded her of her manner on the day of their first meeting, and it annoyed her.
Nevertheless she bent down towards the label on the trunk.
"Don't look at me in that tone of voice," she said gayly, as she turned again toward her friend. "The label is certainly marked,
"_Miss Elinor Naylor_ _The Belhaven, Boston_
and now that I look at it closely I can see that this is not one of our trunks. But how did it come here, Angelina?"
"Oh, Miss Martine, we brought the trunk with us from Boston. It was in the storeroom. I don't know anything about it, except it came the day before Class Day. There was a laundress working there that afternoon, and I remember she told me she had had a trunk sent to the trunk-room. I supposed you told her, and of course when we moved, all the trunks came here. You told me they were to come."
