CHAPTER XIX.
UNCLE CHRISTOPHER'S "GREAT SCHEME." How pleasant it was to be in dear old Norton again! and how glad everybody was to see them! Good old Mrs.Wing said it made her feel young again to have boys in the house.

She certainly had enough of them now; for the Norton boys could not keep away from Mark.

From early morning until evening boys walked back and forth in front of the house waiting for him to appear, or sat on the fence-posts and whistled for him.

Some walked boldly up to the front door, rang the bell, and asked if he were in; while others, more shy, but braver than those who whistled so alluringly from the fence-posts, stole around through the garden at the side of the house, and tried to catch a glimpse of him through the windows.
All this was not because Mark kept himself shut up in the house.

Oh no! he was not that kind of a boy.