ar, and many of them had devoted a generous share of their summer's leisure to preparation, but now industry had become epidemic. The girl

orothy sewing together pieces of bright-colored calico, with stitches an inch long, was a constant incentive to industry, while her habit of waiting till an article was completed before deciding on the use to which it should be put, enlivened the dullest hours. Dorothy scorned to as

errace. On the memorable Saturday designated on the calendar as the tenth, the Wylie establishment was a scene of activity suggesting a hive of bees at swarming time. Girls made their appearance laden with baskets and mys

aste and original ideas, she gradually found herself taking charge, and directing the others. This was pleasant in itself, and the approving comments called forth by the arrangement of flags over the mantel, and the bunching of the palms and ferns in the front hall, brought an unwonted color

said wonderingly, and then finding Graham

sion. "Yes, it does make a difference. Most of the time she looks a mixture of

lusioned look which was the other girl's habitual expression. "You know they used to be quite well off," Peggy explained, as Graham helped her m

represented on those crowded tables, and, though the skill of the workers varied, the average was commendable. Elaine's collar had the place of honor, with a background of black velvet to set off its delicately intricate pattern. In the back parlor we

f-hour before the advertised time for opening the Bazar. "From three to ten" the announcements had read, and when the grandfather's clock in the hall struck the first-named hour there was a

aid tragically. "O, dear! I hope that someb

't wonder if that took a great many people who might have come her

med. "You tell people, and you put up notices in the drugstore, but that

sunny suggestions, which appreciably raised the temperature. "Why, it's only three o'clock. People never come e

the spirits of the little crowd. Various explanations were advanced for the failure of the Bazar. Peggy's opinion was asked as to

hether her arrival would have been regarded as an important event anywhere outside of Mrs. Wylie's parlors. But at the sight of her rusty black bonnet the creases suddenly vanished fr

s contribution, as "pretty little images," and admired some crocheted wash-cloths, with pink edges, under the impression that

e wound up her exhaustive examination of all the articles displayed by the purchase of a holder and five cents' worth of peanut brittle. As she limped down

felt that she had paid more than was right for a hem-stitched towel. It was Peggy who came to the assistance of a perplexed "saleslady" who could not think how much change was due her customer, and who took charge of wrapping some peculiarly obstinate article, and it was also Peggy w

roceedings, late in the afternoon. Compliments were rare on Elaine's lips, and Peggy

ng everybody down, and the queer part

miled a

y secret. If you keep cheerful and are polite, and don't lose your he

were sure of another period of activity, which would, in all probability, empty their tables and fill their treasury. The workers hu

lculating the probable gains, by methods which brought startlingly divers

usual the first to rally, exclaimed, "Why,

her hands. "We only used one freezer of ice cream this a

, anybody who's mean enough to st

our profits dreadf

stake," she cried. "It almost seems as if th

The November night was starless and chilly, and most of the girls, after taking a disconsolate view of the landscape, withdrew shivering to the warmth

ulder, "that you wouldn't think it could get very fa

tiptoe. Further up the alley sounded a curious bumpin

ound it already drawn, and smiled, well plea

at's far

kid. You don't s'pose they's goin' to

head appeared. Then Graham pounced; there was a thud and a wild

the boys had run in the same direction he would have had them both, but as one went east and the other west, he was obliged to make a choice. He ca

ned with his struggling captive. "We'll send some of the boys ou

p a regiment. His coat had at one time been too large for him, but had been fitted to his diminutive person by cutting the sleeves off at the elbows and pinning the surplus of

scowled down upon him impressively. "You're making a nice early start, you

earances he was both deaf and dumb. His mouth had become a

you talk. Just step to the 'phone, one of you," added Gr

a chorus o

aham. He's

ce cream back, Graha

he discussion. "Why, Graha

then bring it back?" The logic was irresistible, but Peggy was

ere way up the alley when we heard them first, and they'd

but in that instant a glance had sped straight as an arrow to Peggy.

, weren't you?" Peggy excl

d encouragement in her air of sympathetic attention. His mouth opened; an

overcome by the effect of his b

encouraged him. "Wha

set to remove some obstruction to the free flow of speech, and as i

tin' money for the empty

laimed Peggy, including the entir

boy with an air suggesting that his youth was at least

rning the ice cream freezer when captured, resulted in a reversal of public sentiment. Little kindly murmurs passed from one to another, and even Graham did not have the he

checked by Peggy. "Wait a minute," she cried, "I've got something for you." She met Graham's air of disap

petting and pampering him. That's just like a girl. You know perfectly," he scolded, as Peggy dished out t

. "Nobody made you smart when you Sophomores

Graham, reddening.

I know, you never took it back." And with this parting shot she car

pink wedges of the unyielding dainty in a manner suggesting that his digestive apparatus must be of a peculiar and improved pattern. When the saucer was scraped cle

E ICE CREAM DISAPPEARED WAS

l right?" asked

red her, adding, as an afterthou

delicacy in question had been put out of sight was the gr

wn squarely and she was confirmed in

--" Peggy searched for a word in the boy's vocabulary--"It was very white of

e big shoes clatter on the walk, as the wearer raced to the gate. And though that was the most successful Bazar the girls of the Terrace had ever held, and the