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"Gee!" said Allison as the car vanished out of sight, "isn't Aunt Ellen sorown up? I say, Cloudy, you won't get that ill you e get you off in our house? If you do, take poison, or getSay, Cloudy Jewel, you're twenty years younger than she is, do you know it? Nohat'll I do next? That closet is all ein on this one? You want this barrel up in the attic, you say? All right; here goes! No, I won't hurt s without hurting myself Open that door, Leslie, and move that chair out of my way Which corner shall I stow it, Cloudy? Southwest? All right!" and he vanished up the stairs with his barrel

At half-past twelve a man and a woman arrived whom Julia Cloud had hired to help; and the house was like a busy hive, not a drone a them It really onderful how short a ti for years But the hands onderfully eager that took hold of the work, and they went at things with a will Moreover, Julia Cloud's do difference

They ate their lunch fro-rooood lunch, bread and butter, apple butter, cookies, half a custard pie, and glasses of rich, foaed with dust and tus for the first time in their lives, and they liked it Moreover, they were bringing to pass a beloved plan that had seeh before anything spoiled or delayed it There was Aunt Ellen There was no telling what she ht not do to hinder, and Julia Cloud was easily troubled by her sister, they could see that, wise children that they were; so they worked with all their ht and an a steady march up to the attic, where it was to be stored

Leslie developed a talent for finding the place where she wasto work She put the sideboard drawers in order, and then went to packing away garments from the closets in drawers and trunks and chests, until by four o'clock a great many little nooks and corners in the house were absolutely clear and e before the new tenants arrived, although, to tell the truth, there was scarcely a spot in Julia Cloud's house that needed , because it had always been kept immaculate