e you'll enjoy it all. You're enthusiastic already. Let me
give you some things for it. Wouldn't you like a few curios and bronze
bits from Aunty Van's collections?"

"Oh, we would! But you oughtn't to spare them."

"I've such quantities, a few will never be missed. Come over and pick
them out yourself. Bring Elise or whoever is on the committee with
you."

"Thank you, Phil, you're awfully good. It will be an immense help.
It's easy enough to get fancy things, and even dining-room things; and
we've oceans of books and desk fittings and such things. But it's
hardest of all to get the very things you offer. And they'll sell,
splendidly."

"And you girls dress appropriately, I suppose."

"Yes, of course we never lose a chance of dressing up. Elise will be
in cap and gown, in the library. Marie Homer, in full evening regalia,
in here. Several as waitresses in the dining-room; flower-girls in the
halls; oh, yes, we even use the kitchen. We have cooks there, and
they'll sell all sorts of aluminum cook dishes and laundry things.
It's really very well planned and I s'pose it will be fun. In the
little reception room we have all sorts of motor things,--robes, coats,
lunch-baskets, cushions, all the best and newest motor accessories.
General Sports goods, too, I believe. Daisy's running that."

"And where are you?"

"Up in my own boudoir. I'm to wear a gorgeous Chinese kimono and one
fascinating cap after another, selling them off of my head to the eager
throngs of purchasers!"

"Fine! You'll do a rushing business. I'll give you some wares to sell
up there, too. Say, some Oriental couch cushions, and some Persian
slippers, and things from Auntie's wardrobe."

"Do you think you ought to?"

"Why, of course. All her things are mine, and there are such
quantities of really valuable stuffs and trinkets I don't know what to
do with them. And as to Aunty Van's own wishes, I know she would have
been glad to have them used in this way,--especially for you."

Patty looked up at him, quickly. She well remembered Mrs. Van Reypen's
affection for her, and what form it took.

"Phil," she said, "I don't want you to give these things for my
sake----"

"Now, don't you worry, Curlyhead, I give them solely and wholly for the
good of the cause. Indeed, if you weren't connected with the affair,
I'd give twice as many!"

Philip's smile contradicted this awful taradiddle, and Patty rejoiced
at his nonsense. Muc