There was a good deal of dust in it, but, as Steve said, if they were careful about getting up and down they wouldn't disturb it! By this time Number 12 began to look quite sumptuous.

They had placed several framed pictures and many photographs and trinkets against the walls and had draped the tops of the chiffoniers with towels.

They had also made up a list of things to bring back with them after the Christmas holidays, a list that included all sorts of articles from a waste-basket to an electric drop-light.

The latter they had not been able to find in their bargain-hunting and could not purchase in the village even if they had sufficient money.

Their pocketbooks were pretty lean by the time they had been there a week, for, beside the expenditures for furnishings, they had, between them, paid two dollars for a year's subscription to the school monthly, and had made quite an outlay for stationery.