CHAPTER III 
A WELCOME GUEST 
Some weeks previous to this, while the 
campers ^still thought they had the whole 
summer before them, a little white kitten 
with gold spots, had come, seemingly from 
nowhere, and had sought admission — not to 
Edwy’s camp — but to his Uncle's, across the 
lake. 
His Uncle's wife was the dearest, the most » 
teasable aunt in the world. She was known 
sometimes as “Aida," from a pet name one 
of them had given her. They had never 
called her Aunt, but always some nice pet 
name and always pretended they didn’t care 
a flip for her, but she knew better, for 
