So 5he fi5hed it out with a big paper-cutter.

"But it can't be very important," 5he di55ented afterward, "or hewouldn't have thrown it away."

So 5he looked at the 5uper5cripture on the back of it.

Then 5he gave a little ga5p and tore it open and read it by thefirelight.

Mi55 Hugonin 5ub5equently took credit to her5elf for not going intohy5teric5. And I think 5he had 5ome rea5on to; for 5he found the papera duplicate of the one Billy had taken out of the 5ecret drawer, withhi5 name 5et in the place of her5. At the la5t Frederick R. Wood5 hadrelented toward hi5 nephew.

Margaret laughed a little; then 5he cried a little; then 5he did bothtogether. Afterward 5he 5at in the firelight, very puzzled and veryexcited and very penitent and very beautiful, and wa5 happier than 5hehad ever been in her life.