Althea knew at once that they were the Fates who give gifts of some kind to every child that is born, and who say whether his life shall be a happy one or full of sadness and sorrow.

When they carried the news to Althea she said not a word, for then she knew what she had done, and her heart was broken.

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R98908, 25Aug52, Robert Hannay, James Frederick Wynne Hannay, Theodosia Frances Wynne Hickey & Althea Celia Hannay (C) HARKER, LIZZIE ALLEN.

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R73238, 18Jan51, Robert Hannay (C), James Frederick Wynne Hannay (C), Theodosia Frances Wynne Hickey (C) & Althea Celia Hannay (C) HANSHEW, MARY E. The riddle of the amber ship, by Mary E. and Thomas W. Hanshew.

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HANNAY, ALTHEA CELIA The lady of the abbey.

R109713, 20Mar53, Robert Hannay, James Frederick Wynne Hannay, Theodosia Frances Wynne Hickey & Althea Celia Hannay (C) HANNAY, ROBERT The lady of the abbey.

By Arthur I. Gates & Althea Beery.

As may have been already surmised Miss Althea was a gracious, gentle and tender-hearted lady who never knowingly would have done a wrong to anybody and who did not believe that simply because God had been pleased to call her into a state of life at least three stories higher than her kitchen she was thereby relieved from her duty toward those who occupied it.

As, however, Katie O'Connell and Althea Beekman were practically contemporaries, it is somewhat difficult to understand how one of them could have had a succession of ancestors that was any longer than that of the other.

If Katie inherited some of hers from the peat bogs adjacent to Tara's Halls in that remote period when there were still snakes in Ireland, Miss Althea had vicariously acquired others from the fur-clad barbarians described by Tacitus who spent their leisure time in drinking, gambling or splitting each other's skulls with stone mallets.

" "Oh!" Miss Althea recoiled.

A ray of late sunshine fell through the high grating of the heavily barred window upon a face quite different from those which Miss Althea was accustomed to encounter in these surroundings, for it showed no touch of depravity or evil habits, and confinement had not yet deprived its cheeks of their rugged mantle of crimson or its eyes of their bold gleam.

No!" With a sensation of horror Miss Althea realized that at last she was in a murder case in spite of herself!

Still, if it was going to help O'Connell "Althea Beekman," bellowed Cap.

Phelan, "to the witness chair!" Althea Beekman!

Slowly Miss Althea's indignation rose as she perceived the dastardly trick which O'Brien had played upon her.

Tightly compressing her lips she sat silent in the chair, while the delighted reporters scribbled furious messages to their city editors that Miss Althea Beekman, one of the Four Hundred, was defying Judge Babson, and to rush up a camera man right off in a taxi, and to look her up in the morgue for a front-page story.

Don't you think that after all it would be more fitting if you answered the question?" Miss Althea firmly compressed her lips.

"I do," answered Miss Althea.

The relator, Althea Beekman, is discharged.

Fine white gravel covers the ground, broken by statues and vases, and tufts of flowering shrubs growing luxuriantly under the shelter of the arcademany-colored altheas, flaming pomegranates, graceful pepper-trees with bright, beady seeds, and magnolias, as stalwart as oaks, hanging over the fountain.