"They put her legs in kind o' casts, you know, that she cant't have taken off yet awhile, but when they do take 'em off--" "Then I'll run!" Blossom interrupted, radiantly. "Oh, oh--and to think we were going to surprise mother, and you surprised me!" breathed Judy. "But I thought--_we_ were going across the ocean--" "You needn't have," Jemmy said. "That great doctor's over there, but there's plenty o' second-great ones over here that make children walk his way. That's what I went to find out. I thought maybe--" "You went to find out--_you_ thought--oh, Jemmy, what a boy you are!" "See here--hold on--wait! Let Blossom do it!" warded off Jemmy Three, backing away precipitately. The beautiful secret was out. Judith had been "s'prised." There were still months of uncertainty, but Judith was not uncertain. She went about in a cloud of rapture. At night she lay awake beside Blossom, and dreamed her rosy, happy dreams. And, in truth, if she could have looked ahead into the certain months, and beyond, she would have seen Blossom walking steadily through all the years.