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Then Miss Cornelia's mind seized upon a sentence in a hurried flow of her sister's last instructions--a sentence that had passed al about Dale and "an unfortunate attach--and I' now her father and I have ht Miss Cornelia shrewdly "Dale's fallen in love, or thinks she has, with soibility' to his name--and now she's unhappy because her parents don't approve--or because she's trying to give hiht little gray curls tre ever coive her a piece of my den out of her seven senses Sally thinks nobody's worth looking at if they didn't couh to realize that if so on crullers and Dutch punch!"

She was just stretching out her hand to ring for Lizzie when a knock cahtly about her shoulders "Who is it--oh, it's only you, Lizzie," as a pleasant Irish face, crowned by an old-fashioned po, Lizzie--I was just going to ring for you Has Miss Dale had breakfast--I know it's sha, Miss Neily," said Lizzie, "and a lovelyit is, too--if that was all of it," she added somewhat tartly as she came into the roo mail reposed

We have not yet described Lizzie Allen--and she deserves description A fixture in the Van Gorder household since her sixteenth year, she had long ere now attained the dignity of a Tradition The slip of a colleen fresh frorown old with her mistress, until the casual bond betweendeeper; e than ours One could not irumble at and cherish--or Lizzie without a Miss Cornelia to baby and scold with the privileged frankness of such old family servitors The tere at once a contrast and a complement Fifty years of American ways had not shaken Lizzie's firm belief in banshees and leprechauns or taue; fifty years of Lizzie had not altered Miss Cornelia's attitude of fond exasperation with soether they er Van Gorder cousins had, irreverently put it, "a scream," but apart each would have felt lost without the other