CHAPTER I

THE ARRIVAL OF THE BOY

"What's the news, Uncle?" asked Miss Patricia Doyle, as she entered the cosy breakfast room of a suite of apartments in Willing Square. Even as she spoke she pecked a little kiss on the forehead of the chubby man addressed as "Uncle"--none other, if you please, than the famous and eccentric multi-millionaire known in Wall Street as John Merrick--and sat down to pour the coffee.

There was energy in her method of doing this simple duty, an indication of suppressed vitality that conveyed the idea that here was a girl accustomed to action. And she fitted well into the homely scene: short and somewhat "squatty" of form, red-haired, freckle-faced and pug-nosed. Wholesome rather than beautiful was Patsy Doyle, but if you caught a glimpse of her dancing blue eyes you straightway forgot her lesser charms.

Quite different was the girl who entered the room a few minutes later. Hers was a dark olive complexion, face of exquisite contour, great brown eyes with a wealth of hair to match them and the flush of a rose in her rounded cheeks. The poise of her girlish figure was gracious and dignified as the bearing of a queen.

"Morning, Cousin Beth," said Patsy cheerily.

"Good morning, my dear," and then, with a trace of anxiety in her tone: "What is the news, Uncle John?"

The little man had ignored Patsy's first question, but now he answered absently, his eyes still fixed upon the newspaper:

"Why, they're going to build another huge skyscraper on Broadway, at Eleventh, and I see the political pot is beginning to bubble all through the Bronx, although--"

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. How are Patricia and John related?
2. How is Patricia related to Beth?
3. What about Beth and John?
4. Who is the more beautiful cousin?
5. Did they ask John the same question?
6. Who asked first?
7. Who did he answer?
8. How?
9. What was he looking at?
10. Did he say anything to Patsy?
11. Is he rich?
12. How rich?
13. Who poured his coffee?
14. Is she beautiful?
15. What is she instead?
16. Where are they?
17. In a house?
18. What kind of home?
19. Where are they located?
20. Where is John known?
1. He's her Uncle
2. She's her Cousin
3. He's her Uncle
4. Beth
5. Yes
6. Patsy
7. Beth
8. absently
9. the newspaper
10. No
11. Yes
12. a multi-millionaire
13. Patricia
14. No
15. Wholesome
16. the breakfast room
17. No
18. a suite of apartments
19. in Willing Square
20. in Wall Street