"Well, of all things!" exclaimed Mrs. Betty Calvert, shaking her white head and tossing her hands in a gesture of amazement. Then, as the letter she had held fell to the floor, her dark eyes twinkled with amusement and she smilingly demanded: "Dorothy, do you want an elephant?" The girl had been reading her own letters, just come in the morning's mail, but she paused to stare at her great-aunt and to ask in turn:…
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