he boys who attended the upper grammar grades, and the High, of Milton, the boy who had been bro

hat was before he and the two older Corner House girls had

ted the old Corner House a good deal. When Agnes and her sister arrived at the party on this

st way, "Ruth and Agnes will be half an hour primping, upstairs.

said Neale, g

overy was made of the masons' shoes i

ated Agnes, when the laugh

" Trix said, carelessly. "Come on,

s walking shoes. But he saw Agnes

ie," he said. "If

n't mean to say you'd be foolish enough to go clear

his pocket and turned toward the door, with a shrug. "I guess I can get back in an hour, Ag.

ll" cried Trix. "

ng the trip for the slippers. "We can get

me this first dance," declared T

the moment. "It's my fault, I guess," he

Now! you sha'n't go off and leave me in the lu

dances. Wait till I

e shoes you have on,

at

posed Agnes, much distresse

last. "You Corner House girls are the most selfish

!" growled Neale,

bother

s, adding fuel to the flames. Neale did not feel any too pleasa

of your concern," he mut

g. The rift in the intimacy between her

less, with the mislaid slippers, he insisted, first of all, upon dancing with Ruth and Agnes. T

old Lucy Poole. "And I don't think really well-bre

or a long time. She had been upon her good behavior; but it did

girls, however, for it made their plans

fter graduation, and that Ruth had tentatively accepted. Therefore even Pearl Harrod-who wa

osing of the Milton High, several family parties were to leave for

ays had lived in that city, they had never expected to spend any part

shing port. There was a still cove, a beautiful river emptying into it, and outside, a st

first visit to the place with keen delight. Tess and Dot were talking about the expected trip a good d

e garret, however, and see her pack it away in the chests there. As she did this the h

, and shuddered. "But they do look so much like candy,

r moths had to live on 'way back in the Garden

ousekeeper, of nobody in particular. "Wh

the girl from the South would be able to pass in the necessary

t jest seems t' take th' puckerin' string all o

od," Ruth said. "But she re

ll her she kin let the housework go. We don't h

Ruth told him. "And she can scarcely do that and ke

n again. "Ain't thar sech a th

uth; likewise he was grateful because she sho

ange and a rest. And all us girls are going to Pleasant Cove this summer. Will

ee, Miss," he observed, scratching his head thoughtful

for a we

o much-that's what I did. Juniper was a sight more uppity than Rosa-otherw

astened to say: "Oh, you'll find her again,

t she'd oughter be home with her sister-and with me. Ye see, she

Wildwood?" asked Rut

' mules, an' the man sold bitters an' corn-salve. Th

ch up to 'em. If we had, I'd sure tuck a hand-holt of that medicine

e poison, too," finished Bob Wi

s curious as she could be about it; but she stuck to her subject until Bob Wildwood agreed to spare his re