_Return to Gone-Away_ _Elizabeth Enright_ _Illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush_ HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC., NEW YORK _1961 by Elizabeth Enright_ _All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, including mimeograph and tape recorder, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-6113 Printed in the United States of America First edition_ BY THE SAME AUTHOR _Gone-Away Lake_ (published by Harcourt, Brace & World) _The Four-Story Mistake_ _The Melendy Family_ (containing _The Saturdays_, _The Four-Story Mistake_, and _Then There Were Five_) _The Saturdays_ _Spiderweb for Two_ _Then There Were Five_ _Thimble Summer_ _The Sea Is All Around_ (published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston) _For Peter Montgomery Benton and his sister Gata_ _Contents_ 1 _A Wish Come True_ 2 _Return to Gone-Away_ 3 _The House_ 4 _The Victors_ 5 _The Sheep-Lady's Secret_ 6 _The House of Astonishment_ 7 _Another Beginning_ 8 _Gone-Away Housekeeping_ 9 _The Attic_ 10 _The Rescue Shell_ 11 _The Hot Spell_ 12 _The Plan_ 13 _The Night of the Full Moon_ 14 _Advice to Librans_ 15 _The Safe_ 16 _A New Old Name_ _Return to Gone-Away_ 1 _A Wish Come True_ "You mean really? You mean honestly? Daddy, you mean you really, really, really _did_?" cried Portia Blake, hugging her father around the middle and at the same time jumping. "You mean cross-your-heart truly?" demanded her brother Foster, grabbing his father's arm with both hands and at the same time jumping. Their dog Gulliver, a boxer, added to the general pandemonium by barking emphatically, and also, of course, jumping. "Down, everybody, down!" protested Mr. Blake. "Your joy is too athletic; it jars my bones. Yes, I do mean really, I do mean honestly. Your mother and I signed the papers today, and the Villa Caprice is ours!" "We'll have to think of a new name for that house right away," said Mrs. Blake.