"We met such a lovely woman in Brownlee's store, and she said she wanted our help to buy some things for a girl, and that's how we came to know." "Dear Aunt Margaret," said Elnora, "it was like her to ask you.

Isn't she splendid ?" "She is indeed," chorused the girls.

Elnora set down her lunch box and books, unpinned her hat, hanging it beside the others, and taking up the books she reached to set the box in its place and dropped it.

With a little cry she snatched at it and caught the strap on top.

That pulled from the fastening, the cover unrolled, the box fell away as far as it could, two porcelain lids rattled on the floor, and the one sandwich rolled like a cartwheel across the room.