CHAPTER XII
MISS BENEDICT SPEAKS
It was Miss Minerva who decided that Miss Benedict must be told about the coincidence of the two bracelets.
“Certainly, she ought to know!” she declared positively. “There must be some reason why that child has been sent to her, and she ought to be told all the facts concerning her. Who knows but what she may have some explanation of this bracelet mystery! You tell her the very next time you go in. And don’t forget to take a jar of that quince marmalade, besides.” Aunt Minerva had determined on keeping Cecily well supplied with toothsome dainties, which commodities, she keenly suspected, were scarce in the big house. In fact, the girls had told her that the marketing for that establishment, so far as they had seen, seemed to consist mainly of milk and eg
