But we got through dinner and he didn't come, and didn't come, and mamma got more perplexed and worried, but at last we thought we would have to go without him.

So we put on our things and started down stairs but before we'd goten half down we met papa coming up with a great bunch of roses in his hand.

He explained that the reason he was so late was that his watch stopped and he didn't notice and kept thinking it an hour earlier than it really was.

The roses he carried were some Col.

Fred Grant sent to mamma.