I think I will see about it at once.

If Mr.Colman should come in while I am gone, tell him I will be back directly; I don't want you to tell him of the change in our circumstances." The cooper found Mr.Harrison at home.
"I called to inquire," asked Mr.Harding, "whether you have let your house ?" "Not as yet," was the reply.
"What rent do you ask ?" "Twenty dollars a quarter.

I don't think that unreasonable." "It is satisfactory to me," was the cooper's reply, "and if you have no objections to me as a tenant, I will engage it at once." "Far from having any objections, Mr.Harding," was the courteous reply, "I shall be glad to secure so good a tenant.

Will you go over and look at the house ?" "Not now, sir; I am somewhat in haste.

Can we move in to-day ?" "Certainly." His errand satisfactorily accomplished, the cooper returned home.
Meanwhile the landlord had called.
He was a little surprised to find that Mrs.Harding, instead of looking depressed, looked cheerful rather than otherwise.
"I was not aware you had a child so young," he remarked, looking at the baby.
"It is not mine," said Mrs.Harding, briefly.
"The child of a neighbor, I suppose," thought the landlord.
Meanwhile he scrutinized closely, without appearing to do so, the furniture in the room.
At this point Mr.Harding entered the house.
"Good-morning," said Colman, affably.