and I want her to have a little more time for pleasure than she
has had for a good many years. She won't take a real vacation, so we
are going to give her a partial vacation."

"Me being the helper?" inquired Moya, her thin face lighting.

"More than the helper. Kate has agreed to teach you how to cook all
the dishes that it will be necessary to cook for the women and children
this summer. You couldn't have a better teacher."

"I'm sure of it," answered the young woman, turning gratefully to Kate.
"I'll do my very best."

"You shall have a room for yourself and the baby, and wages," and she
named a sum that made Moya's eyes burn.

"I'm not worth that yet," she cried, "but I know you'll need me to
dress respectable, so I'll not refuse it and I'll get some decent
things for the baby and mesilf!"

"If Kate finds that you take hold well she'll teach you more elaborate
cooking. There's always a place waiting somewhere for a good cook, and
here's your chance to learn to be a really excellent cook."

So the problem of obtaining a cook was settled without trouble, and as
Ethel Brown found Mrs. Schuler not only ready but eager to act as
Matron, two of the possible difficulties seemed to have proved
themselves no difficulties at all.

CHAPTER IV

PLANS

The work of the carpenters filled in very acceptably the time when the
members of the Club were toiling at school.

A visit of inspection toward the end of June gave the onlookers the
greatest satisfaction.

"Everything is as fine as a fiddle!" exclaimed Roger as they all
stopped in one of the upstairs rooms. "Now it's up to us to do the
papering and painting and to concoct some furniture."

So it was decided that all the bedrooms should have white paint and
walls of delicate hues and that Mrs. Schuler's office should be pink
with white paint and white curtains at the windows.

"We can get very pretty papers for ten cents a roll," said Margaret.
"I saw some beauties when I went to the paperers to get some flowery
papers for James to cut out when he was pasting decorations on to our
Christmas Ship boxes."

"Are you going to use wall paper?" asked Miss Merriam quickly.

"Aren't we?" inquired Margaret. "It didn't occur to me that there was
anything else. There is paper on the walls now."

"It's a lot more sanitary to have the walls kalsomined, I know that,"
said James in a superior tone. "Haven't you heard Father say so a
dozen times?"

"I suppo