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Rh Reggie, and he says he expects them both to give warning before the month is out."

"I should think they would," cried Letty, laughing, and realizing the woes of two London flunkies in a domestic staff made up of Virginia negroes.

"None of them can read a written order," continued Miss Maywood, who usually avoided the bad form of talking about servants, but who found present circumstances too over-powering for her. "The cook seems an excellent old person, not devoid of intelligence, although wholly without education—and as Reggie liked her way of preparing an omelette, I sent for her to write down the recipe. She came in, laughing as if it were the greatest joke in the world, called me 'honey' and 'child,' and I never could get out of her—although she talked incessantly in her peculiar patois—what I really wished to know."

This amused Sir Archy very much, who went on to relate his experiences with Tom Battercake.

But Mr. Romaine seemed to find Letty more than usually attractive, and soon established himself by her with an air of proprietorship that ran both Sir Archy and Farebrother