Page:The secret play (1915).djvu/139

 *ment. He had arranged with the janitor for that. "And then, the night before, Louise is going to get the key to Mr. Grayson's room and we're going to move the old furniture out into the hall and put the new things in."

"I shall be very busy at home that evening," murmured Gordon.

Louise regarded him indignantly. "Indeed you'll not, Gordon Merrick! Every one has got to help. Some of the things will be frightfully heavy."

"The janitor is going to help us," said Morris.

"As near as I can make out," remarked Dick, with a smile, "almost every one in town has been taken into the secret except Mr. Grayson. If he doesn't know of it already it's a miracle!"

"We had to tell the janitor," said Morris. "And Miss Turner. She's going to borrow his key for us."

"Oh, I'm not objecting," replied Dick. "But you'll have to acknowledge that the chances of keeping it from Mr. Grayson until the twenty-fifth are mighty slim."

"Anyway, I'm pretty sure he hasn't heard anything yet," said Louise. "And—and I don't believe he will. It would be too frightfully mean if anyone told him!"