CHAPTER XVIII

BETTY UNDERSTANDS

Morgan hurried back and began a hasty inspection of the chambers. Sherecollected seeing Libbie upstairs at the entrance of Washington's chamberthe last time she had definitely noticed her, and she ran upstairs tosee if she might not be there.

No Libbie was in any of the chambers.

Downstairs she searched hurriedly, peeping under people's elbows,trying not to annoy others and yet to make a thorough hunt in a shorttime so as not to keep the others waiting. Then in the music chamber, orEast Parlor, as it is occasionally called, she found the truant, gazing withrapt eyes at the quaint very aged harpsichord which had belonged to NellieCustis.