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"Perhaps your guardian will not think ested in sudden alarm

"Well, he'd just better not!" declared Allison, bristling up "I'd like to knohere he could find a better"

"I've never been in society," said Julia Cloud thoughtfully "I don't know social ways ood judgment"

"That's just e like you," chorused the children "You've never grown up and got dull and stiff and poky like an Leslie, putting a loving ared since ere children We talked it all over on the way here We had a kind of eyebrow code by which we could let each other knoe thought about it without your seeing us We were to lift one eyebrow, the right one, if ere favorably impressed, and dran the left if ere disappointed But in case ere sure both eyebroere to go up And of course ere sure you were just the same dear the minute we laid eyes on you, and all four of our eyebroent high as they'd go the first instant Didn't you notice Allison? His eyebroere almost up to his hair, and they pulled his eyes so wide open they were perfectly round like saucers As for me I think ot back to their natural place even yet!" And Leslie laid a rosy finger over her brow, and felt anxiously along the delicate velvety line

"I shall go out and telegraph Mr Luddington that you are willing," announced Allison as he hung up the dish-towel "He'll get it in thewhen he reaches Boston, and then he needn't fuss and fu to do with us Besides, I like to have the bargain clinched soram will do it" Allison slammed out of the house noisily to the extreme confusion of Mrs Ambrose Perkins, who hadn't been able to eat her supper properly for watching the house to see ould happen next Who could that young et a clew; for, when she went over for the soda, though she knocked several tihter for a house where there had just been a funeral, not a soul came to the door! Could it be that Julia Cloud heard her and stayed up-stairs on purpose? She felt that as the nearest neighbor and a great friend, of Ellen's it would be rather expected of her to find out as going on She resolutely refrained fro the parlor lamp, and took up her station at the dark atch; but, although she sat there until after ten o'clock, she was utterly unable to find out anything except that the household across the way stayed up very late and there were lights in both front roo she would just have to get Aht to know