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 brick office with a blue cable train standing in front of it.

"I went up to the conductor. 'Does this train go to Wabash Avenue and Madison Street?' I asked.

It surely does,' said he.

Do we have to change cars?'

Not a change.'

"My, but I was proud! We got on and I sat down in one corner and went to thinking over our experiences, just as if I were telling you about it all, and when I came to the 'Home for Incurables' part, I had some work to do. I wish they'd change the name of it, Chet. Just think of going to live in a place with a name like that! It's like having over the entrance: 'All ye who enter here, leave hope behind.' I'm sure that they will see it right some day, and change the name to something cozy and hopeful that will make the people there feel a thrill of confidence in good, every time that they say it or write it. I went to trying to think up just exaetly the best name; and then by and by I felt my head bumping against the window-frame and Miss Kathleen drew it over onto her shoulder,—and then we