with a gun and keeping out of the way of people, and what with three square meals, a good night's sleep and the exercise, he was looking a lot better. Seen in daylight, he had very

saw Mr. Dick and Mrs. Dick and the Mr. Sams and Miss Patty. They g

y out of all this. Carter ought to go in and take charge, and his-er-wife ought to go back

orgotten the night before, and was very nice to him. Once she smiled directly at him, and whatever he was saying died in his throat of the shock. When she turned her head away he stared at t

him, including Mr. Jennings' liver and

ng to help us?" And when she asked him that, it was pla

t her, "and you all think it's feasible and I c

up and down the room. "It isn't as though I'm beyond call. You can come out here and consu

oked at me

nderstand that, I suppose, Pierce? You can come out every day

nd she knew it. When a woman looks as

ve tried everything else, I believe. It can't be worse th

ng and turned suddenly

what?"

g, and I was the only one

for the company; most of them have gone back to New York, but the leading woman is sick at the hotel in Finleyville. I'd like to

ogether, and Mr. Sam look

they spread around," Mr. Pie

id his wife. They all turned to look at him

sket, which was still there, and when we'd gathered u

avor of bringing Miss-the person you speak of-up to the sanato

" Mr. Pierce said; "sh

"If they're as contagious as all that, yo

ooking obstinate. "The minute you bring an actre

ster. "Because any actress

k sat up

her up," said Miss Patty. "Only-won'

salary hasn't been paid for a month, and as I'm r

her board at the hotel," Mr. Dick be

for every on

s Patty asked. "Don't be ridiculous. That

eing reminded of the time he had run away from school, when his grandfather found him in t

stay unless he can play the friend in need, all right. But don't come after me if t

as Wed

when they weren't drinking spring water they were in the bar washing away the taste of it. They took twenty minutes on the verandas every day for exercise and kept the house temperature at eighty. Senator Biggs was still fasting and Mrs. Biggs too

ace veil and a French poodle in a sleigh and went to bed in one of the best

we made a trail through the snow that looked like a fever chart. Toward daylight

, but what with a chilblain on my heel and hardly any sleep f

eating, Minnie," Miss Cobb s

look at it,

d it was three minutes before she could spea

he said, holding out the curler. "I haven't been ab

r to give the white poodle a Turkish bath-it being under the weather as to health-and how Mike had soaked the little beast for an hour in

Miss Cobb said, "but all it did was to make it mottled like an Easter egg. Everybody i

ted, limping over to heat the curler.

own her hand-mi

a few things. He's forever looking at the thermometer and opening windows. I declare, if I hadn'

strips of cotton batting around the cracks that we'd ever been able to keep people there in t

e, fairly bursting with curiosity, and Mr. Sam got some canned stuff in Finleyville and took it after dark to the shelter-house. B

e Eyre and Molly Bawn, by The Duchess, and the newspapers, of course. They were full of talk about the wedding, and the suite the prince was bringing over with him, and every now and then a notice would say that Miss Dorothy Jennings, the bride's young sister, who was still in school and was not coming out until next year, would be her sister's maid of honor. And when the

r nothing. And the night Mr. Sam and I carried out the canned salmon and corn and to

out of ear-shot, "spit it

ed, "is Ju-is Miss Summers

"Ju-Miss Summers was d

said, "and he's told her the

is arm. "You wretched boy, don'

as mine. Couldn't you have found somebody else, instead of getti

"Then it WASN'T coinci

nd done soon. If you want the plain truth, Miss-er-Summers and I used to be friends-and-we

me. I dropped down in a sno