an with a motor-cycle, which
I considered silly, as one could hear him coming when to miles off, and
any how he spent most of the time taking the maids for rides, and broke
an arm for one of them.

Jane spent the night with me, and being unable to sleep, owing to
dieting again and having an emty stomache, wakened me at 2 A. M. and we
went to the pantrey together. When going back upstairs with some cake
and canned pairs, we heard a door close below. We both shreiked, and the
Familey got up, but found no one except Leila, who could not sleep
and was out getting some air. They were very unpleasant, but as Jane
observed, families have little or no gratitude.

I come now to the Stranger again.

On the next afternoon, while engaged in a few words with the station
hackman, who said I was taking his trade although not needing the
Money--which was a thing he could not possably know--while he had a
familey and a horse to feed, I saw the Stranger of the milk wagon, et
cetera, emerge from the one-thirty five.

He then looked at a piece of MAUVE NOTE PAPER, and said:

"How much to take me up the Greenfield Road?"

"Where to?" I asked in a pre-emptory manner.

He then looked at a piece of MAUVE NOTE PAPER, and said:

"To a big pine tree at the foot of Oak Hill. Do you know the Place?"

Did I know the Place? Had I not, as a child, rolled and even turned
summersalts down that hill? Was it not on my very ancestrial acres? It
was, indeed.

Although suspicous at once, because of no address but a pine tree, I
said nothing, except merely:

"Fifty cents."

"Suppose we fix it like this," he suggested. "Fifty cents for the trip
and another fifty for going away at once and not hanging around, and
fifty more for forgetting me the moment you leave?"

I had until then worn my gogles, but removing them to wipe my face, he
stared, and then said:

"And another fifty for not running into anything, including milk
wagons."

I hesatated. To dollars was to dollars, but I have always been honest,
and above reproach. But what if he was the Theif, and now about to
survey my own Home with a view to entering it clandestinely? Was I one
to assist him under those circumstanses?

However, at that moment I remembered the Reward. With that amount I
could pay everything and start life over again, and even purchace a few
things I needed. For I was allready wearing my TROUSEAU, having been
unable to get any plain every-day garments, and thus frequ