"There's a little, one-horse village of
the name among the Berkshire Mountains,
not far from fashionable Lenox."
Her father smiled.

"Lenox! How lovely! Why! that's
where you and I are going to stay--stay
for a week or two--isn't it, father,
&en route^ for Greylock and the experiments.
You know the Grosvenors have
invited us--and they have a wonderful
old place up there. Una's mother is
carrying coals these days--" Pemrose
winked--"coals of penitence in her
heart for ever having sneered at your invention,
Daddy."

"Hot ones, are they? Well! I wish
she'd hasten and spill them out before
she reaches Lenox." The inventor
chuckled. "Let me see, she was born
there, I believe, at their mountain home--yes,
and one or other of her brothers, too."

"Ho! Was it--was it the unicorn; I--I
mean the oddity; the Thunder Bird's
rival for all-l that money?" The girl-*
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