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"We'll just have to send Cloudy ahile, or put her to bed and pretend she is sick every tiht, after his departure had s "We've tried everything else He just won't take a hint! What do you say, Cloudy; will you play sick?"
"My dear!" said Julia Cloud aghast, "he doesn't come to seescarlet, and distress showed in every feature
The children fairly shouted
"You dear, old, blind Cloudy, of course he does! Who on earth else would he co into her eyes, "he ht, Cloudy; you should worry! I'll go tell him so if you want hast
"No, of course not, Cloudy, but we'll find a way to get rid of the old pill if we have to move away for a while"
Nevertheless, the old pill continued to come early and often, and there see in on their privacy at theas if he were sure of a welcome The children froze him, and were rude, and Julia Cloud withdrew farther and farther; but nothing seemed to faze him
"It's too bad to have so ht at the supper-table when their unwelcome visitor had been a subject of discussion "Miss Detliff is eating her heart out for hi round in the hall when his class is out, and it's about tiet a ith hi for our papers ten whole minutes the other day while she discussed better classrooht do so about thisAllison with her likeness to her English teacher
"That's an idea!" said Allison suddenly "No, don't ask uest to dinner to-ht?"
"Certainly, anybody you please," replied Julia Cloud innocently; and the incorrigible Allison appeared the next afternoon with Miss Detliff, s up in the back seat of the car Julia Cloud received her graciously, and never soon until later in the evening, when Dr Bowman arrived and was ushered in to find his colaborer there before hiht a glance of intelligence passing between Leslie and Allison, with a sudden revelation of a plot behind it all During the entire evening she sat quietly, saying little, but her eyes dancing with the fun of it What children they were, and how she loved them! yes, and what a child she was herself! for she couldn't help loving their pranks as well as they did