"Very well.

If you are still curious, when you see me, I'll tell you who I am." "A bargain! I'll be back early." More seriously, Gray declared: "I must tell you right now how perfectly splendid I think you are.

You have completely renewed my belief in human kindness, and I'm sure your name must be Miss Good." But a disappointment awaited Calvin Gray when, late that afternoon, he returned to the store.

Miss Good had gone.

At first he refused to believe Ma Briskow's statement, but it was true: she had disappeared as quietly and as unobtrusively as she had appeared, and, what was more annoying, she had left no word whatever for him.