Chapter 25 THE CASE OF FATTY BUDLOW

Lest Miss Katharine Lansdale seem unduly formidable, I should, perhaps, say that I appeared to be alone in finding her so. Little Arcadians of my own sex younger than myself-and, if I may suggest it, less discerning-were not only not menaced, but she invited them with a cordiality in which the keenest eye among them could detect no flaw. Miss Lansd