And--lately--I've been having a sort of house cleaning--straightening things up--and I straightened that up, too." Ellen Ranger understood.

A long pause, during which she looked lovingly at her daughter's beautiful face.

At last she said: "No, there don't seem to be no other way out of it." Then, anxiously, "You ain't written Dory what you've done ?" "No," replied Del.

"Not yet." "Not never!" exclaimed her mother.

"That's one of the things a body mustn't ever tell anyone.