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"Chicken, we'll go I ought to be ashamed to fish for an invitation the way I did, but I'm not I haven't been down to the Hart ranch yet; and I've heard enough about it to drive me crazy with the desire to see it Your Aunt Phoebe I've met, and fallen in love with--that's a matter of course She toldto be invited especially Isn't she the dearest thing? Oh! that's a train order, I suppose--sixteen is about due Excuse me, chicken"

She was busy then until the train ca down upon the station, paused there while the conductor rushed in, got a thin slip of paper for hirumbled away fro there, a fish-basket slung from one shoulder, a trout rod carefully wrapped in its case in his hand, a box which looked suspiciously like a case of some bottled joy at his feet, and a loose-lipped sie?" he called unctuously through the open door

Miss Georgie barely glanced at hied themselves in an aler?" she responded coolly, and very, very gently pushed the door shut just as he had made up his mind to enter