Except for the light which came in from the electric bulb on the porch outside, the big room was in twilight.

As it did so, the driver gave another glance toward where the mountain girl stood, a swift, kind glance, and a smile that stayed with her after the shining car had disappeared in the direction of the wide-porched building where people were laughing and calling to each other and moving aboutpeople dressed in beautiful garments which Johnnie would fain have inspected more closely.

" There it stood, snow-white, broad-porched, a new house reared upon the old stone foundation she remembered.