Spunkie has been boarding out all August at a cat home, but he seems glad to get back to us.

I am anxious to see the two little chaps together, just to find out how much alike they really do look." Very promptly came Billy's answer; but William's face, after he had read the letter, was almost as blank as it had been on that April day when Billy's first letter came--though this time for a far different reason.
"Why, boys, she--isn't--coming," he announced in dismay.
"Isn't coming!" ejaculated two astonished Voices.
"No." "Not--at--ALL ?" "Why, of course, later," retorted William, with unwonted sharpness.

"But not now.

This is what she says." And he read aloud: "DEAR UNCLE WILLIAM:--You poor dear man! Did you think I'd really let you spend your time and your thought over hunting up a school for me, after all the rest you have done for me?
Not a bit of it! Why, Aunt Hannah and I have been buried under school catalogues all summer, and I have studied them all until I know just which has turkey dinners on Sundays, and which ice cream at least twice a week.

And it's all settled, too, long ago.