ONLY FOR TO-NIGHT! On the evening of the 4th of July, Professor Valeyon and Cornelia got into the wagon, and drove off, behind Dolly, to the boarding-house.

It was a warm, breathless night, and the stars looked brighter and more numerous than usual.
The boarding-house was one of the largest buildings in town--an accidental sort of structure, painted white, green-blinded, and protected, from the two roads at whose intersection it stood, by a white-washed board-fence, deficient in several places.

The house expanded into no less than four large bay-windows, affording an outlook to three small rooms upon the ground-floor.

The four or five other larger apartments were forced to pass a gloomy existence behind a loop-hole or two apiece, which could not have measured over three feet in any direction.
The two largest rooms lay corner to corner, at right angles to one another, and communicating by a passage-way through their point of contact.

Who the original genius was who discovered the admirable facilities this else preposterous arrangement afforded for dances will remain forever unknown; but the experiment once tried became an institution as permanent as Abbie herself.
The small triangle of space between the two rooms, which to utilize had theretofore been an unsolved problem, served admirably as a station for the band; they could be heard in either apartment equally well.