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 *forty-five the following Monday evening. Anything more to say?"

"No, here's your old twenty cents. Only it's a quarter. Got a nickel?"

"I may have," replied Gordon untroubledly, "but I don't intend to look. I'll just change that twenty cents to twenty-five and so save trouble. There we are! And here's the cash, Louise. Put your little cross opposite my name, please."

After that Morris insisted on giving another dollar and Nell fifty cents. "I haven't the slightest idea where I'll get it," declared the latter tragically. "I'll just have to do something and make some money. Perhaps I'll sell matches on the street corner! Or—or have a lemonade stand in the front yard!"

"If you do please see that the lemonade is hot," said Lanny. "Cold lemonade in this weather wouldn't go very fast."

"Then," said Louise, rising, "I suppose you don't want any, Lanny. Never mind, I dare say the rest of us can drink it."

"Oh, well," replied Lanny carelessly, "if you have it all made— Rather than seem unappreciative, you know"