Produced by Brandon Sussman, Tom Allen, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. KEINETH BY JANE D. ABBOTT TO ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS I KNOW THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED CONTENTS CHAPTER I. KEINETH'S WORLD CHANGES II. KEINETH DECIDES III. OVERLOOK IV. KEINETH WRITES TO HER FATHER V. PILOT COMES TO OVERLOOK VI. THE MUSIC THE FAIRIES PUT IN HER FINGERS VII. ALICE RUNS AWAY VIII. A PAGE FROM HISTORY IX. THE CAPTIVE MAIDEN X. PILOT IN DISGRACE XI. PILOT WINS A HOME XII. A LETTER FROM DADDY XIII. CAMPING XIV. THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT XV. NOT ON THE PROGRAM XVI. AUNT JOSEPHINE XVII. SCHOOL DAYS XVIII. CHRISTMAS XIX. WHEN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT WORKED OVERTIME. XX. SHADOWS XXI. PILOT GOES AWAY XXII. KEINETH'S GIFT XXIII. SURPRISES XXIV. MR. PRESIDENT XXV. THE CASTLE OF DREAMS CHAPTER I KEINETH'S WORLD CHANGES Keineth Randolph's world seemed suddenly to be turning upside down! For the past three days there had been no lessons. Keineth had lessons instead of going to school. She had them sometimes with Madame Henri, or "Tante" as she called her, and sometimes with her father. If the sun was very inviting in the morning, lessons would wait until afternoon; or, if, sitting straight and still in the big room her father called his study, Keineth found it impossible to think of the book before her, Tante would say in her prim voice: "Dreaming, cherie?" and add, "the books will wait!" Or, if father was hearing the lessons, he would toss aside the book and beckon to Keineth to sit on his knee. Then he would tell a story. It would be, perhaps, something about India or they would travel together through Norway; or it would be Custer's fight with the Indians or the wanderings of the Acadians through the English Colonies in America, as portrayed in Longfellow's Evangeline. But for three days Keineth had had neither lessons nor stories--she had not even wanted to go out into the park to walk. For her dear Tante, with a very sad face, was packing her trunks and boxes, and Daddy had gone out of town. To-morrow the little woman was going to sail on a Norwegian boat for Europe. The trip seemed to Keineth to be particularly unusual because Tante and Daddy had talked so much about it and Tante had waited until Daddy had gotten her some papers which would take her safely into Europe. So much talk and the important papers made it seem as though she was going very far away. Perhaps she did not expect to come back to America--she stopped so often in her work to kiss Keineth!