She wore her new gown gracefully, too, as if well accustomed to feminine attire all her life.
The only thing now needed, as Patsy said, was time in which to grow her hair, which had always been cut short, in boyish fashion.
They were a merry party when they boarded the train for Syracuse, and Uncle John arranged with the guard to secure two adjoining compartments all to themselves, that they might have plenty of room.
"Where did you put the money, Uncle John ?" Beth whispered, when at last they were whirling along and skirting the base of Mt.

Etna toward the Catania side.
"I've hidden it in my trunk," he replied, in the same confidential tone.
"There is no bank in this neighborhood to receive it, so I decided to carry it with us." "But will it be safe in the trunk ?" she enquired.
"Of course, my dear.

Who would think of looking there for fifty thousand dollars?
And no one knows we happen to have so much money with us." "What did the Count--I mean, Mr.Weldon--do with his ransom ?" "Carries it in his satchel, so he can keep it with him and have an eye on it.

It's a great mistake, Beth, to do such a thing as that.

It'll make him uneasy every minute, and he won't dare to let a _facchino_ handle his grip.