They said call up Judge Harvey and ask him what to do.

I did and Judge Harvey came down and he examined the letter and said it was undoubtedly written by Mrs.De Peyster.

And he called up the Tiffany Studios, and they said they'd had such a telephone order from Mrs.De Peyster." "Jack and I never dreamed that his mother might have left orders to have people in here to renovate the house!" cried Mary in dismay.
"Then--then Judge Harvey asked the man to put off the work," Matilda went on.

"The man was very polite, but he said his orders from Mrs.
De Peyster had been strict, and if he wasn't allowed to go on with the work, he said, in order to protect himself, he'd have to cable Mrs.
De Peyster that the people occupying her house wouldn't let him.

Judge Harvey didn't want Mrs.De Peyster to find out about Mr.and Mrs.
Jack, so he told the man to go ahead." "And the man ?" breathed Mrs.De Peyster.