n Wonderland'," Helen Nash remarked to Marion after Mr. St

ess inquired, looking c

e, has been thinking in ter

n corrected, with

to my purpose, more like a multiplication table, instead

th carloads of coal and soot weighing down his imagination all day, to come home in the evening and spin off a

y," answe

e compliment paid to the dearest daddy on earth. Still, after leaving the atmosp

guns on a lonely highw

es

turned traitor and planned to deliv

es

he came home, found everybody scared to death, and before he even began his story had us all laughing just as Alice would at some of the contortions behind the looking g

ion in puzzled surprise. "

eft alone following the startling occurrences of the evening, had withdrawn to their rooms. Helen was about to bid her friend good-night when her remark regard

d to kidnap your father? What other exp

" Marion replied thoughtfully. "Father call

o money with

. He seldom carr

eur and the two highwaymen was for the purpose of murder. They would have

Marion

murder motives out of the way, is that the plotters wished to take your

want?" asked the

ind out," said Helen shrewdly. "Personally, I haven't

kes you

e Institute. Show that to your father tonight a

is dinner, I'm going to show that letter to him. I'll go upstairs now and get it. You wait here and be present when we talk it over, Helen

in Westmoreland. A few minutes later her father and mother both entered the library with the evident purpo

d to kidnap you?" Marion inquired

ck laughed

ell, that's a good one. I tho

o show you, something I forgot all about until Helen reminded me. Helen thinks those me

wise girl or else she has made a pretty ac

did want to

kind of retreat in the mountains, and planned

at

to a receivership sooner or later and again they demand the adoption of a cooperative plan which eventually would make them owners of the mines, if there were any

s missives to her father. "I received them by mail at the Institute last nig

ger threatened members of his family or their intimate friends, all signs of levity disappeared from his manner and he was

e where the plot to kidnap me originated. They are pretty well organized and determined to go the limit. Of course, you girls must

other letter?

to amount to much. I hardly think it is to be

our Grand Council Fire. It was a complete surprise on us, exceedingly well done and about as clever as you could expect from the cleverest boys. Before

clared so positively and such a gleam of interest in his

uired. "I don't see any real proof in those w

is more reasonable to suspect that this note came from the boys than from the strikers. If it is between

heir surprise tonight and settle the

her with the faint ligh

the thing. Uncertainty always bothers m

their surprise without coming t

ather and her mother. "Do you know, I found myself wondering several times if Cli

l the noise he made. It was really a noise, as he must have admitted himself,

times over these circumstances and her father