"But first read that invitation and
see if you see anything unusual or suspicious about it."
"I can hardly read it; for this writing looks like that on the
obelisk,--or at least it's nearly as unintelligible. But it seems to
say that Mrs. Robert Homer requests the pleasure of your company at
luncheon on Tuesday, April the eighth, at half-past one o'clock.
Nothing criminal about that, is there?"
"Is there! There is, indeed! Nan, you're the dearest, sweetest,
loveliest lady in the whole world, but you can't see a hole through
a ladder. So I'll tell you. The date of that party is really April
the FIRST. I mean, Marie wrote April the first! And if you'll
observe, somebody else has put a twisty line around that ONE and
made it into an EIGHT! Why, it's as plain as day!"
"It certainly is, Patty," and Nan looked at the girl in astonishment
and admiration. "How did you ever happen to notice it?"
"Why, it just jumped out at me. See, a different pen was used. The
line is thicker. And nobody would make an EIGHT that way. They'd
make it all with one pen mark. And this is a straight up-and-down
ONE, and that rest of it was put on later. And, anyway, Nan, if
there were any doubt, don't you see it isn't TH after it as it ought
to be for the eight, it's ST?"
"You can't tell which it is in this crazy handwriting," and Nan
scrutinised the page.
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