"You must not come in now, dears; I want to talk to grannie. If you keep
away I will tell you a nice story in the evening."
"My dearest child, what has kept you? I have been uneasy; and how
dreadfully tired you look!"
"I am tired, but that is nothing. I think, dear, I have a little good
news for you."
"Come into the dining-room. I have some dinner for you, and we can talk
quietly. Ada is expecting a visitor."
But Katherine could not eat until she told her adventures. First she
described her interview with Mr. Channing.
"It is something certainly to have left my unfortunate MS. in his hands;
still I dare not hope much from that," said Mrs. Liddell.
"Then, mother dear," resumed Katherine, "I ventured to do something for
which I hope you will not be angry with me--I have found John Liddell! I
have invaded his den; I have spoken to him; I have cooked a chop for
him, as I used for you last winter; and though I have been sent empty
away, I am not without hopes that he will help us out of our
difficulties."
"Katie, dear, what _have_ you done?" cried her mother, aghast. "How did
you manage--how did you dare?" Whereupon Katherine gave her mother a
graphic account of the whole affair.
"It is a wonderful history," said Mrs.
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