"Where is he ?" "He's down in the drawing-room, beginning on the tables." "It seems to me," suggested Mr.Pyecroft, "that since this summer hotel is filling so rapidly, we might as well withdraw our advertisements from the papers." "I wonder, ma'-- " Matilda checked herself just in time.

"I wonder, Angelica," she exclaimed desperately, "who it'll be next ?" "Isn't it simply awful!" cried Mary.

"But Jack's gone into hiding and isn't going to stir--and the man didn't see him--and I'm your niece, you know.

So Jack and I are in no danger.

Anyhow, Judge Harvey gave the man a--a large fee not to mention any one being in the house besides Matilda, and the man promised.