The carpet was not put down until the morning of the day when the young men started for Vassar, and it was the noise of the tack-hammer which Tom had heard and likened to the shingling of a roof.
'There must be flowers everywhere, Jerrie is so fond of them,' Maude said; and she brought great baskets full from the park gardens, and a costly Dresden vase, which Arthur had left for Jerrie when he went away, together with his card and his photograph, and a note in which he had written as follows: 'MY DEAR CHILD:--Welcome, welcome home again.

I wish I could see you when your blue eyes first look upon the room I came so near telling you about.

Maude would have killed me if I had.

You have no idea how Harold has worked to get it done, and where he got the money is more than I know.

Pinched himself, in every way, of course.