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"There was so," said Miss Cornelia idly "Oh, yes--the Union Bank--the bank Mr Fle, Senior, was president of has failed They seem to think the cashier robbed it Did you see that, Dale?"

The shoulders of the girl on the staircase straightened suddenly Then they drooped again "Yes--I saw it," she said in a queerly colorless voice "Too bad It must be terrible to--to have everyone suspect you--and hunt you--as I suppose they're hunting that poor cashier"

"Well," said Miss Cornelia, "a man recks a bank deserves very little sy But then I'--and if you want an aspirin, there's a box inMaybe I'll take one and maybe I won't--all I really need is to lie down for a while"

She e of Miss Cornelia's vision, leaving Miss Cornelia to ponder ood, of a certainty If not actually ill, she was obviously under some considerable mental strain And why this sudden interest, first in the Bat, then in the failure of the Union Bank? Was it possible that Dale, too, had been receiving threatening letters?

I'll be glad when that gardener coht to herself He'll make a MAN in the house at any rate

When Lizzie at last ca her head

"Cornelia, Cornelia," she wasto herself, "you should have taken to pistol practice when you were younger; it just sho children waste their opportunities"