CHAPTER XVIII—LACES AND GOLD 

At four o’clock in the afternoon Patsy rubbed her eyes, yawned and raised her head from her pillow. 

“Dear me!” she sighed, “I’m tired yet, but this sleeping in the daytime is unnatural. I wonder if Beth is awake.” 

She went to the door of the adjoining room, opened it and found her cousin dressing. 

“Do you suppose anyone else is up?” she inquired. 

“See there,” replied Beth, pointing through the window. 

Patsy saw. Mr. Runyon was seated on a garden bench in earnest conversation with Mildred Travers. 

“Didn’t he go home this morning, after the excitement was over?” she asked. 

“No,” replied Beth. “Mr. and Mrs. Hahn drove their car home, but our interesting neighbor at the north, Mr. Bul Run, declared there was nothing at his own ranch half so enticing as a bed here. He’s a bachelor, it seems, and leads rather a lonely life. So Arthur gave him a room and he went to bed; but it seems he has had his sleep out and is indulging in other recreations.” 

Patsy was eyeing the couple in the garden. 

“Mr. Runyon seems to have struck up a friendship with your protégé Mildred,” she observed. 

“Yes,” answered Beth. “You know he was shut up in the wall with her and Inez for awhile and the adventure must have made them feel well acquainted. Wasn’t that imprisonment a most peculiar thing, Patsy?” 

“Very peculiar. I haven’t had much time to think about it, for as soon as Toodlums was safe in Louise’s arms I went to bed. But it occurs to me to wonder how Mildred Travers knew so much of the secrets of this absurd old house and why she ventured to explore the hidden rooms in our absence. Put that with the fact that she lived in these parts as a girl, and with her eagerness to come out here—don’t you remember her fervent ‘thank heaven’?—and it seems the whole mystery isn’t unraveled yet; it’s only getting more tangled.” 
When did Patsy wake up?
What did she do?
Why?
What did she do next?
And then?
Was there?
Who?
How old are they?
What were they doing?
About what?
Was there a commotion the night before?
What happened?
Four o’clock in the afternoon.
At four o’clock in the afternoon Patsy rubbed her eyes, yawned and raised her head from her pillow.
Rubbed her eyes, yawned and raised her head.
Patsy rubbed her eyes, yawned and raised her head
She just woke up.
At four o’clock in the afternoon Patsy rubbed her eyes, yawned and raised her head from her pillow. 

“Dear me!” she sighed, “I’m tired yet, but this sleeping in the daytime is unnatural. I wonder if Beth is awake.”
She went to the door of the adjoining room and opened it.
She went to the door of the adjoining room, opened it and found her cousin dressing.
Asked her cousin if anyone else was up.
“Do you suppose anyone else is up?” she inquired. 
Yes
See there,” replied Beth, pointing through the window. 

Patsy saw. Mr. Runyon was seated on a garden bench in earnest conversation with Mildred Travers.
Mr. Runyon and Mildred Travers
Mr. Runyon was seated on a garden bench in earnest conversation with Mildred Travers
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Talking
Mr. Runyon was seated on a garden bench in earnest conversation with Mildred Travers
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Yes
“Didn’t he go home this morning, after the excitement was over?” she asked. 
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