s dined; and offered to consent to their social retirement if
they would give up the teaching and come home. The twins were troubled
and apologetic, but inflexible. They had found the life they were meant
for; they could not give it up. If she knew how happy they were!

"How, with your bringing up, you can enjoy this!" she marveled. "It
isn't respectable--eating in nasty little holes alone at night!"

"But it is a nice, clean place, and Mr. White and Mr. Morton are nearly
always with us," Dora began, then broke off at an expression of pleased
enlightenment that flashed across her mother's face. "They are just very
good friends," she explained gravely; "they don't take us as girls at
all--that is why we have such nice times with them. We are simply
comrades, and interested in the same books and problems."

"And they bother about us chiefly because we are a sort of sociological
demonstration to them," Cora added. "They like experiments of every
kind."

"Ah, yes, I understand," assented Mrs. Baldwin. "Well, you certainly are
fixed up very nicely here. If you want anything from home, let me know.
After all, it is a piquant little adventure. If you are happy in it, I
suppose I ought not to complain."

She was all complacence and compliment the rest of her visit. When she
went away, the girls glanced uneasily at each other.

"She took a wrong idea in her head," said Dora. "I do hope we undeceived
her. It would be hard for her to understand how wholly mental and
impersonal our friendship is with those two."

"Well, she will see in time, when nothing comes of it," said Cora
confidently. "That's their ring, now. Oh, Dora, isn't our life nice!"

Mrs. Baldwin, passing down the shabby front steps, might have seen the
two men approaching, one with an armful of books and the other with a
potted plant; but she apparently did not recognize them, for she stepped
into her carriage without a sign. The visit seemed to have left a
pleasant memory with her, however; her bland serenity, as she drove
away, was not unlike that of the cat which has just swallowed the
canary.

FALL STYLES IN FACES[5]

BY WALLACE IRWIN

Faces this Fall will lead the styles
More than in former years
With something very neat in smiles
Well trimmed with eyes and ears.
The Gayer Set, so rumor hints,
Will have their noses made
In all the famous Highball Tints--
A bright carnation shade.

For morning wear in club and l