y. "I've got to make

history references for the next day, glanced at her friend askance. "O," she said

Peggy's ton

for an intimate friend! You're the only o

ch, then," suggested Peggy,

cerned, Peggy, I don't know. Of course the more intimate you get with her, th

an unqualified success, since she never had the heart to carry her teasing to the climax. "I was only laughing at

iosity. Peggy tipped the balance by givin

s if glad to get away from the previous to

Echo A

e, but I do

oss the tracks

I didn't suppose anyb

ople do. Sc

Of course, I meant the kin

ggy admitted. "But I've wanted to ever since

cream boy! W

mes, but there's something about him I can't help liking. And I thought I'd see what sort of woman his mother was. Sometimes we have an extra woman in to

illa's mood had become extremely affectionate. She pressed the arm she held. She complimented the way Peggy was doing her hair. While she did not acknowledge to herself that her impulse to be

ile it would have been hard for a professional riddle-guesser to say why the little twisting, squalid street should have been dignified with the name of avenue. A goat, with oblique, u

ing a curly-haired little girl with enormous black eyes, and gold r

ed importantly. "She's a dago and her folks a

Mrs. Dunn, Jimmy

ich led to the Dunn's front door, placed, for some inexplicable reason, some feet below the street level, she reflected that in Glen E

er her shoulder. The girls followed as she led the way, uncomfortably aware that all the children f

h a double chin, which seemed superfluous, considering that poor Jimmy had scarcely flesh enoug

tly, "'tain't no use comin' here. My health don't allow

was purely social, and Mrs. Dunn

he kindlings might as well go under the bed. 'Liza," she added to the red-haired girl, who, with her usual officiousness, was lending a hand, "now there's a tea-towel hanging up over the sink; t

entering wedge as a topic of conversation, ventured to pat the round cheek of the child in Mrs. Dunn's arms. "That's a nice fat baby, Mrs. Dunn," she said, and the compliment was not a careless bid

unn gr

l winter," she said. "Amonia of the lungs 'twas, and the mumps firs

rt trouble?" ask

ake me off some day, I s'pose." She lowered her voice thrillingly. "

ggy and Priscilla

the most fatal of any. You can buy things at any drug store to cure consumption and amonia of the lungs

ject to something less depressing

e's off sell

s he? It's a pity, fo

gh for anybody. And Francesca, she pretty near finished the fourth grade, too,

hought they weren't allowed

plained Mrs. Dunn, "'count o

d Peggy. "Do you have to live on what those two children ear

bs. The doctor told me last week that I'd ought to get some medicine to make my complication a little easier, but I haven't had a cent to spare for it. Seems as if it took all Jimmy and Francesca make to keep us in coal, and pay the rent."

enly by the entrance of a young woman. She was a trim and business-like young woman who betrayed no surprise at t

"I've been down to the works, Mrs. Dunn, and I find th

ed if the mysterious and dread disease "complica

sharply. "He ain't as strong as he looks, Mr. Dun

ss, and the reason he had difficulty with the foreman was that he wouldn't attend to business. Now we are ready to hel

ve been an apology for their abrupt departure, or a promise to come again. Mrs. Dunn paid l

"She's all the time comin' to the Dunns. She don't never come to our home, 'less somebody's sic

-haired girl's explanation, as she caught sight of something res

t in the cluster of struggling bodies, from which proceeded outcries of the most blood-curdling nature. Only the goat which the girls had previously noticed, seemed to share their apprehensi

re grinning and some looked angry. And one was crying. The last was the central figure of the group, and he limped as he approached the sidewalk. His

riscilla, it i

med and held forth a wet, dirty and uninviting object, whose proximity caused

Peggy had known. Jimmy Dunn, however, regarded his prize with unalloyed satisfaction. "They was going to drown it, them smart kids," he said with a gesture that included all his late antagonists. "But t

ggy said, proffering her handkerchief. Jimmy

Priscilla suggested wit

ooked a litt

t till I start cryin'. I'm going to the store and get a cent's worth o' milk for this

f fur in Jimmy's arms. Thinking it advisable that measures of resuscitation should begin as promptly as possible, the two girls said good-bye and walked on, heari

-sincere." That was as severe as Peggy could very well be on short acquaintance. "But a

iculars Priscill