CHAPTER XVII
MAJOR GOODRICH ASSISTS
During the week following Aunt Minerva’s departure, the two girls had a busy life, taking charge of the unaccustomed tasks of housekeeping.
But with all their absorbing occupations, the three were waiting on tiptoe of expectation for a reply from Major Goodrich. And even Captain Brett could scarcely conceal his impatience as the days went by and no answer came.
At last one morning the mail-box contained a letter postmarked from Pennsylvania, and Marcia carried it upstairs two steps at a time.
It was from the major. He wrote:
Is there any way you can think of to furnish me with an idea of what the Chinese for that expression, “maker of melodies,” sounds like? The only way that occurs to me is to see whether, by any faint chance, Lee Ching could writ
