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Newland interrupted He knew the iain, and doubly, infuriated by the prospect of its repetition here He began fiercely: "Dill, you see here----"

"Your Aunt Georgina said----"

Both voices had risen Plainly it was tilanced anxiously through the darkness of the rooht of the library lamp shone upon a door ajar; and she was the ive the effect of coolness, had lit an Orduentle," she said "Let's take the settee and some chairs down on the lahere we can sit and see the moon"

"There isn't any," Noble reo, anyhow," she said cheerily "Coerents were diverted, and Noble lifted the light wicker settee "I'll carry this," he said "It's no trouble Sanders can carry a chair--I guess he'd be equal to that much" He stumbled, dropped the settee, and lifted a basket, its contents covered with a newspaper "Somebody must have----"

"What is it?"

"It's a basket," said Noble

"How curious!"

Julia peered through the darkness "I wonder who could have left that market basket out _here_ I suppose----" She paused "Our cook does do o ask her if it's ours"

She stepped quickly into the house, leaving two concentrations of inimical silence behind her, but she returned almost iue," Julia was saying as they ca and simply and plainly left it out there because you were too shiftless to----"

"No'h voice of defensive complaint "No'ot jus' th'ee markit baskits in the livin' worl' an' they ev'y las' one an' all sittin' right where I kin lay my han's on 'em behime my back do' No'm, Miss Julia, I take my solemn oaf I ain' lef no----" But here she debouched upon the porch, and in spite of the darkness perceived herself to be in the presence of distinguished callers "Pahdonleaf to insis' I better take thishere baskit back to my kitchen an' see whut-all's insiden of it"