He found them standing directly in front of him as he emerged.
"Have you--have you killed them ?" begged the younger of the pair.
"Be they all dead ?" demanded the other.
Brown nodded solemnly.

"I guess so," he said.

"They seem to be." "Oh, I'm so glad!" cried the dark haired girl.

"I'm--we--are so much obliged to you." "If there's any critters on earth," declared the stout woman, "that I can't stand, it's wasps and hornets and such.

Mice, I don't mind--" "I do," interrupted her companion with emphasis.
"But when I walked into that room and seen that nest in the corner I was pretty nigh knocked over--and," she added, "it takes consider'ble to do that to ME." The assistant looked at her.