But if Jerry had not visited it in person, she was greatly interested in the handsome house and grounds, and the lovely rooms where the crazy man lived.

This was Harold's designation of Mr.
Arthur--the crazy man--and perhaps of all the things at Tracy Park, Jerry was most desirous to see him and his rooms.

Harold, who, on one of the rare occasions when Arthur was out to dine, had been sent to the house on an errand, had gone with Jack into these rooms, which he described minutely to his grandmother and Jerry, dwelling longest upon the beautiful picture in the window.

'Gretchen, he calls it,' he said; and then Jerry, who was listening intently, gave a sudden upward and sidewise turn to her Lead, just as she had done when Mr.Tracy spoke to her of Wiesbaden.
'Detchen,' she repeated, with a little hesitancy.

'Vat the name vas?
Say again.' He said it again, and over the child's face there came a puzzled expression, as if she were trying to recall something which baffled all her efforts.