POOR KITTY! Only a few days later Kitty's eyes were opened for her, and opened violently.

Autumn had come on apace.

The days were short now, and the evenings long and dark.

Already the girls were counting that there were only five or six weeks before Dan came home; and at school there was much talk of the break-up party, and the tableaux which were to be the chief feature of the festivity this year.

Kitty was to take part in one tableau at least.