le brass plate on Lady's bridle," Frederick
reminded him, "so 'twould be easy if the man were honest."

Mr. Freeman cautioned them not to tell any one but Rose's mother of
their discovery of the shingled house in the woods where Bill Mains had
the hidden stores.

"No one knows just whom to trust these days," he said, "and if such news
was known to those who sympathize with the English they'd soon be after
his guns and powder."

"I think we will have a sewing-bee," Mrs. Freeman said, when Rose had
told her the story of Anne's flight from Province Town, and that the
little girl had no clothing, but had two golden guineas to spend. "You
and Anne will have to be busy with your needles for a part of each day
until she has proper clothes. And early to-morrow morning we will walk
up to Mistress Mason's shop on Cornhill and get her some shoes."

The little room that opened from Rose's chamber had a broad window which
looked toward the harbor. There were white curtains at this window, tied
back with crocheted bands of white cotton. The floor was painted a soft
grayish brown, and there were strips of rag carpet spread beside the
white covered bed, and in front of the mahogany bureau. There was a
looking-glass hung over this bureau. By standing on tiptoe Anne could
see herself in it. In one corner of the room was a wash-stand with a
blue china bowl and pitcher. Near the window was a low table and a
rocking-chair.

It was a very neat and pleasant room, and to Anne it seemed beautiful.
That it opened directly into the big square chamber where Rose slept
made her feel very much at home. She wished that Aunt Martha Stoddard
could see it, and she went to the window and looked off across the blue
waters of the harbor wishing that she could see Aunt Martha and tell her
all the wonderful things that had befallen her.

It was decided that Anne was to have a pair of slippers with straps
fastening around the in-step and a pair of shoes for every-day wear.
Mrs. Freeman had a good store of white stockings which Rose had outgrown
and from these a number were selected for Anne. When she was dressed
ready to go to the shops with Mrs. Freeman and Rose the latter
exclaimed:

"Mother, mayn't I open the parlor shutters so that Anne can see herself
in the long mirror?"

"Why, yes; but be very careful to close them that the sun may not strike
on the carpet," replied Mrs. Freeman, a little reluctantly; for the
Freemans' parlor was a very grand