Peggy-Alone

lity of tissue-paper hats," said Uncle Fred at supper the next evening. Although

per hats!

that I had superintended the putting on of yours, and that I wa

t age for-anything; but we couldn't co

to find my hat adorned with a red-white-and-blue rosette, which horrified h

had, meddl

ne. Alene, I'm a failure as a stern old guardian! I think, to put myself right w

e them," cried Alene, with angry vehemence, holding her fork in such a

ou or me; she's only indignant because everyone doesn'

zzie with a laugh and a blush, giving Alene a

al object in paying me a visit was not to lecture me, as I supposed, but

promised to come and stay

any reason for the little girl's vexation. Indeed, Alene herself could not define what was, in reality, the dism

of the housekeeper, when Alene, kneeling on a chair at the wi

ping trees. "The girls could swing and run about in the grass, and now we'll all have to stay cooped together in

lay some games there! It does seem unfortunate how things tu

st because we wanted to for a noble cause, like some of the martyrs did, it wouldn't be half so

nd, her face glowing from an attack on the upst

s; it radiated from her blue eyes, her yellow hair, her round rosy cheeks; Alene, turning from the depressing out

be profane or fu

about! Wouldn't it be fun for you and

apped he

ase let me be chief cook-I think it would be

or let me off this afternoon and my sister's exp

how much to use and where to find the s

the housekeeper. It seemed so easy, just so many cups of sugar, so much vinegar and water, a lump of butter

I bring you some upstairs to the sewing-room this aft

cure in having provided something that would pass the greater part of the time, so she

it did not seem any time until Prince gave a joyous

making their way through the rain; they were coming aro

but the drippings," Alene observed. She seized an umbrella from the rack and

s made such a din that it reached Mrs. Major, who

sness that the little girl, whose loneliness had been a source of anxiety to the older

cried the beaming Alene, dancing round, more of a hindrance th

h knew how much I wanted to come, and just as he was

for pity!" explained Laura, who stood before the rack mirror surveying a few locks of straight hair which stuck to her forehead. "I was just telling I

head. "But talking of lightning, when I was quite small I remember one day in school it stormed hard. The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed and one of the girls got frightened and bega

"A girl told me one day if you put beads in the oven more beads would grow. So I put in my string

ar, big enough to put a good-sized tin pan in, and filled the pan with water. We put pebbles in the bottom and moss around the rim and thought we had a perpet

ory, divested of their rain-coats, hats and rubbers

Tales of the Angels.' Let's re

shut in by the crimson curtains of the cosy corner, where the rain beat against the window panes and the vines stirred in the wind emphasizing the comfort o

unced Ivy, peering throug

seys," said Alene, go

keep them away," murmu

turning back when Alene said they were

then footsteps and voices in the hall, and

had found a small rent in her silk umbrella for w

rib to touch your umbrella! It must have been done when you crowded

brushing others up against damp walls! But it's just a little cut such as only an umbrella point could give. It

ce to tell you

hen she has a grievance to air!"

tion to the careful removing of her kid gloves. The conversation with her mother as to the manner in which to meet her poorer schoolmates in soc

of her abstraction. Alene was showing them some she

How appropriate for to-day," crie

ld you like to come into t

rom the little room opening off th

said Hermione, "if only ther

e's V

rary, I guess. Come

, Hermione, only she-she won't sometimes," and as the two girls paire

her hand from the keyboard to give Ivy

he piano and letting her eyes stray from Alene's nimble fingering to the graceful swaying of the girls in