you shan't have another piece of candy for a whole
week."

Paul's protest was drowned in a wail from Dora.

"But me wants some tandies," she cried. "Me didn't take any."

"She would, if Paul hadn't seem them first," murmured Grace, but Mollie
shot her a warning glance.

"No," she said, "and just for being such a good girl, sister's going to
give you six big chocolates all for yourself."

Dodo gave a shout of glee and disengaging herself with one last frantic
wriggle from Betty's embrace, precipitated herself upon Mollie like a
young cyclone.

"Ooh dive 'em to me, dive 'em to me quick," she demanded, then as Mollie
made good her promise the little girl turned upon the erring Paul a look
of conscious virtue and said gravely; "If you were a dood boy I would
div you one, but now me's goin' eat 'em up, every one till dey's all
gone."

Then she took to her heels, scurrying down the steps and around the
corner of the house with Paul in hot pursuit.

"Dodo," they heard him crying plaintively, "I'll let you play wiv my
best bunny if you will div me one candy, just one--"

"I wouldn't give much for his chances," chuckled Mollie, adding with a
sigh that was a mixture of exasperation and amusement. "Aren't they
perfectly terrible? There isn't a minute of the day when they're not in
some mischief."

"No, they're adorable," cried Betty fondly. "I wouldn't give two cents
for children that didn't get into mischief all the time."

"I don't care so much about the mischief," said Grace, eyeing her empty
chocolate box ruefully, "if they would only leave my candies alone."

"Never mind, Gracie," replied Mollie, laughing at her, "you shall have a
whole box of mine, so you shall."

"Fine," agreed Grace, adding with a chuckle as Mollie handed over the
almost full box: "Since my candies were more than half gone, I don't
call it such a bad bargain at that."

"I'll say it wasn't," dimpled Betty.

"Just the same," said Mollie, after a little pause, "even though the
twins are a great deal of trouble, Mother said she just wouldn't have
known what to do without them--especially after I went to Camp
Liberty--the house would have been so frightfully dull."

"I should think so," said Grace, adding suddenly, as though she had
thought of it for the first time: "Why she would have been all alone,
wouldn't she? How awful!" For Mollie had no father, he having died
several years before.

"And the other day she said the strangest thing,"