Tripping with the Tucker Twins

light and brought me the menu from the café. I ordered a substantial dinner for the three of us and w

. Tweedles at last-one of them, anyhow! It turned out to be Mr. Tucker, and I was covered with confus

both of them have had the heartlessness to go out at one time an

ground! If the girls wanted to tell their father of their escapades they were to be allowed to do so, but it was not my business. Why didn't they come on

r you until day after

son why you shouldn't

glad to see yo

weedles will not b

l be." Why, oh, why

a jaunty angle but just at that hopelessly out-of-plumb slant. Her face was dirty enough

I'll never be able to make a living peddling household no-- What,-you!" an

s,

ou

you understan

O

ind three lone ladies so glad to see me? Page greets me with an icy mitt, and now all

dragging along the

m so tired that nobody had bett

" said

st into tears which certainly did n

the matter?" he cried,

o pay her debts by honest toil, selling household novelties at back doors and tramping up and d

crous side of things had struck my risibles and, willy-nilly, I succumbed to laughter. Brindle, how

anybody dead? What do you mean, Dee, by having on my coat and cap? What d

-I

tweedled the twins, trying

nd the fire came along at Gresham at a rather inopportune

forget the old clothes!" f

ice-blue eyes. I had never had the least fear of him from the moment I had met him, but now I felt, to say the least, quite confused

l, g

and the money, too. So Tweedles were all broken up over owing

ed it?" stil

nk it is a great deal better for people to get to work and pay o

e. He looked rather startled, and the twins stopped sobbing and began to dry their eyes on two very grimy handkerchiefs. I do not often get very angry, but there was something about being looked at as Zebedee looked at me, that made me lose all control of myself. He made me feel that I was a bad little girl while he consid

, Pa

hat, as Tweedles hoped to get the money earned before you returned. The girls are

to make all the money you say they owe. I am not a bit angry,

d at me so coldl

u are m

when I said I

rs call their free giving way to tears. You remember, it was a trait of the family. They thought no more of weeping than of laug

fy or anything that we might get." Zebedee wiped his eyes and gave his girls a hug and kiss in spite of their grimy, soiled countenances, and then he turned to me as they flew to the bathroom to d

t your weight on your foo

! Not a

edles came in worn out with making a liv

d that was

t was my f

and made me feel so young and naughty, and as I had not done a thing on earth but just suggest to the girls that they try to earn

ng to find three charming girls, all of them overjoyed to see me, and what do I find? Nothing but 'What, yous!'

f him, however, and by my sudden anger over nothing or almost nothing I had unwittingly turned his atten

to have you back. I don't see

that it was excess of emotion and delight