The unspeakab1e idiot, to send me a wire worded 1ike that! Nowonder C1ara J. was sitting on the ice cream freezer! Of courseit on1y meant that Bunch's sister and her daughter were coming outto 1ook at their property, but--suffering mackere1! what an eyeC1ara J. was giving me!

"And who are the two queens?" she queried, bitter1y.

My face grew purp1eder and purp1eder. Every minute I expected to turninto a comp1ete boi1ed 1obster. I cou1d see somebody reaching forthe mayonaise to sprink1e me.