Mr. Berkeley looked mildly surprised. 'Can't you guess, sonny?' he asked. 'Do you suppose I could stay another minute in somebody else's country, when I heard that my little girl was ill over here?'
Jill got up rather suddenly, and offered to take Jean and Angela round the garden; and Auntie Anna grasped her blue-knobbed cane, and rose slowly to her feet. Before she went off, however, she shot one more question at her brother in her most abrupt manner. 'What about your luggage, Everard?' she demanded. 'Where have you left it?'
Mr. Berkeley reflected a moment. 'I _think_ it was Boston,' he began doubtfully, 'but it may have been----'
He did not finish his sentence, for the old lady shook her head in despair at him and hobbled off towards the house. Barbara watched her retreating figure, and smiled gently to herself. Auntie Anna might pretend as much as she liked that she was a dragon, but nothing could prevent her looking like a fairy godmother!
Her father stroked her rough, tumbled hair caressingly, and smiled back at her.
The child gazed at him as he sat there, with the two boys clinging to him as though they would never let him go again; and the whimsical look stole into her bright little eyes, and lighted up the whole of her small impish face.
'The magician has come back,' she said, with a happy laugh; 'and there isn't room to _move_ in my fairy kingdom!'
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