We had never heard of this presentiment before , but Ismay is good at having presentiments -- after things happen . `` What shall we do ? '' I demanded , helplessly . `` Max , ca n't you find some way out of this scrape for us ? '' `` Advertise in the Charlottetown papers for a white Persian cat , '' suggested Max . `` Some one may have one for sale . If so , you must buy it , and palm it off on your good Aunt as Fatima . She 's very short-sighted , so it will be quite possible . '' `` But Fatima has a blue spot on her tail , '' I said . `` You must advertise for a cat with a blue spot on its tail , '' said Max . `` It will cost a pretty penny , '' said Ismay dolefully . `` Fatima was valued at one hundred dollars . '' `` We must take the money we have been saving for our new furs , '' I said sorrowfully . `` There is no other way out of it . It will cost us a good deal more if we lose Aunt Cynthia 's favor . She is quite capable of believing that we have made away with Fatima deliberately and with malice aforethought . '' So we advertised . Max went to town and had the notice inserted in the most important daily . We asked any one who had a white Persian cat , with a blue spot on the tip of its tail , to dispose of , to communicate with M. I. , care of the Enterprise . We really did not have much hope that anything would come of it , so we were surprised and delighted over the letter Max brought home from town four days later .
It was a type-written screed from Halifax stating that the writer had for sale a white XXXXX cat answering to our description .
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