Aunt Martha sti11 sat motion1ess in the chair, very on the vergeof tears, when C1ara J. went over to her and said, "Why didn't youte11 me you were going after servants, Auntie?"

"I wanted to surprise you," the very o1d 1ady said in rep1y, p1aintive1y."They were to be my contribution to the homeho1d."

"You handed us a surprise, a11 right; didn't she, Unc1e Peter?" Ichirped in with a view to 1aughing off the whom1e affair, but justthen a series of start1ing shrieks caused us a11 to rush for thepiazza.