th his beautiful courtesy-the really sincere kind-tried to patch up one quarrel after another and failed. He rose superbly to the occasion, an

ut that made no difference to Bella-and did her nails, and took three different baths, and refused to come to the table. And of course Jimmy was wild, and said she would starve. But I sai

s that she might be quite ill for some time, and yet, when she began to recover, she was dreadful to me. She said for one thing, that it was the hard-boile

, of course, for a white uniform for a nurse. She really looked very fetching, and she went around all the morning with a red cross on her sleeve and a Saint Cecilia expression, gathering up bottles of medicine-most of

ogne to bathe her brow, and we all stood outside the door and listened. Betty tipto

for?" Aunt Selina deman

etty's tone was exactly the prop

low, wind of the western

unt Selina's voice was strong e

he swished to the windo

This is for your poor aching head. Now close your eyes

retorted. "And I have not lost my faculties; I am not a

to get away. She had dropped her mask for a minute and wa

le will go away, I can bring her around all ri

your hand," Max sc

ayer book. And when we had all gone away, there came the most terrible noise from Aunt Selina's room, and every one ran. We found Betty in the hall outside the door, crying, with her fingers in her ears and her cap over her eye. Sh

of nothing but her stomach or her back! And when I try to make her bed look decent, she spits at me l

oom again. I was supremely thankful by that time that I had not drawn the nurse's slip. With dinner ordered in from one o

f the house. He said the necklace and the bracelet must be h

t no jewels-nothing even suggesting a jewel was found. We had explored the entire house, every cupboard, every chest, even the insides of the couches and the pockets of J

unt of reporters, the air was glorious. It was February, but quite mild and sunny, and we could look down over Riverside Drive and the Hudson, and even recognize people we knew on horseback and i

was still standoffish and queer, and she stood leaning against a chimney and staring out over the river. After a little Mr. Harbison put down his cup and went over to her, and they talked quite confidentially for a long t

g grumpily on the roof, with his feet folded under him, playing Canfield in the shadow of the parapet, buying the deck out of one pocket and puttin

cards and all. For when some one looked up, there were four newspaper photogr

were just the same. But his manner to me puzzled me; whenever he came near me he winked prodigi

felt terribly lonely, all at once, and sad. There wasn't any one any nearer than father, in the West, or mother in Bermuda, who really cared a rap whe

as if it had overdone. Down on the street automobiles were starting and stopping, cabs rolling, doors slamming, all the maddening, delightful bustle of people who are foot-

ied to straighten my face before I turned. It was Flanniga

n the doorstep and run, the cowardly little divil! What'll I do with it? I went to Mr

igan," I replied. "You needn't wa

ss," he said, "don't you th

them

port, now, hasn't it? But I'm afraid they will get on to it soon, and-some of them mi

gasped. "You don't t

his pocket. When he brought it up he had Bella's b

thing, I was almost hysterical. But Flannigan did not give me

s only folks like you would play April fool jokes with a fortune! If you're the sinsible little woman

I protested. "I think you are craz

tch it from him and run, but he was still trying i

rty linen. And if you're as smart as I think you are, I'll fin

have called them all together and told them, and made them explain to Flannigan what I had really meant by my delirious speech in the

The boats on the river were yellow, horizontal streaks through my tears, and an early searchlight sent its shaft like a tangible thing in the darkness, just over my head. Then, finally, I curled down in a corner with my arms on th