that we have pretty soon a series of parties or receptions, just for
the young people to get together and bring new ones in one at a time,
just as the boys in college have rushing-parties, you know. We'll
have a reception, real formal, with regular eats from a caterer,
and flowers and invitations and everything, for the first one; and a
Hallowe'en party for the October meeting, and a banquet for the
November meeting, just about Thanksgiving time, you know. Oh, it's
going to be lots of fun. And, Cloudy, I told them we'd make a hundred
sandwiches for to-morrow night; you don't mind, do you? We can buy
the bread, and it won't take long to make them. I know how to cut
them in pretty shapes, and I thought I'd tie them with ribbons to
match the lemonade."

Julia Cloud with radiant face entered into the plans eagerly, and to
have heard them talk one would never have imagined that twenty-four
hours before these two young people had been exceedingly averse to
having anything to do with that little dying Christian Endeavor Young
People's Society.

"And, Cloudy, that Jane Bristol is real pretty. She had on a charming
collar to-night, and her hair fixed all soft around her face. She has
beautiful hair! I think they were all surprised at the easy way she
talked; I don't believe she is a day older than I am, either. And she
_is_ going to college. I'm awfully glad, for I want to get to know
her. We'll invite her down here sometimes, won't we? I want you to
know her, Cloudy. You'll like her, I'm sure."

So Julia Cloud went to her pretty gray bed that night, and lay
marvelling at the goodness of God to answer her prayers. As for the
children, they could hardly settle down to sleep, so full of plans
were they for the revivifying of that Christian Endeavor Society. They
kept calling back and forth from room to room, and after everything
had been quiet for a long time and Julia Cloud was just dropping off
to sleep, Leslie woke them all up calling to know if it wouldn't be a
good plan to have the Hallowe'en party there at the house and have
everybody come in costume. Then they had to begin all over again, and
decide what they would wear and who they would be. Allison declared he
was going to be a firecracker; he had a "dandy" costume for it in
California, and he would write to-morrow morning to the housekeeper to
look it up.

Leslie wanted to have a candy-pull, with apples and nuts and raisins
for refreshments. Julia Cloud began to won