"Aunt Mary has typhoid fever--there seems to be so much of that this spring and they sent for mamma.

She's such a splendid nurse, you know." Thurston did know, but he passed over the subject.

"And you're alone ?" he demanded.
"Certainly not; aren't you two here ?" Mona could be very pert when she tried.

"Jack and I are holding down the ranch just now; the boys are all on roundup, of course.

Jack went to town today to see some one.
"Um-m-yes, of course." It was Park, still trying to be polite and not commit himself on the subject of Jack.