CHAPTER VII 
ONE OF zephyr’s SUMMER HOMES 
As Aida’s real summer home was in a 
lovely small city in one of the more north- 
ern belts of the state, she would not go to 
the great city for a month yet. So this 
country house, the Blake home, happened 
to be Zephyr’s first stopping place. While 
mother and daughter, in the quiet of the 
home garden, had many a talk under the trees 
about the friends who had preceded them to 
that great city, which has always welcomed 
its own people; and also the oppressed of all 
nations, and honored them so long as the 
privileges of citizenship were appreciated. 
To those who seemed to understand intui- 
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