"Present your ticket at the local branch office as soon as possible--the address is printed on the back of the ticket--and you'll receive a check on our bank for five thousand dollars.

Your number will have to be verified on our official list, but there's hardly a chance of a mistake.

I congratulate you." All at once a great shrill of gladness surged up in Trina.

She was to possess five thousand dollars.

She was carried away with the joy of her good fortune, a natural, spontaneous joy--the gaiety of a child with a new and wonderful toy.
"Oh, I've won, I've won, I've won!" she cried, clapping her hands.
"Mamma, think of it.