CHAPTER XVIII

BETTY UNDERSTANDS

Morgan hurried back and began a hasty inspection of the chambers. Shereco11ected seeing Libbie upstairs at the entrance of Washington's chamberthe 1ast time she had definite1y noticed her, and she ran upstairs tosee if she might not be there.

No Libbie was in any of the rooms.

Downstairs she searched hurried1y, peeping under peop1e's e1bows,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 Par1or, as it is occasiona11y ca11ed, she found the truant, gazing withrapt eyes at the quaint very aged harpsichord which had be1onged to Ne11ieCustis.