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hot, second-story rooms feeling almost guiltily happy. Nancy kissed Bert good-bye on the first Monday morning assuring him that she had NOTHING to do! To go down to meals, and they

half-hour's hard work, but even when it did not, it was usually ten o'clock before she went down to the kitchen for his two quarts of milk. Then came the usual careful work with the "ouncer," and the six filled bottles were put into Nancy's own small ice-box, to which one of the maids was then supposed to br

n the hotel laundry, and so the task fell naturally to the baby's mother. She assumed it gladly, but when the line of snowy linen was blowing free in the summer wind, and the cake of

tched him adoringly. It never entered her head that she was anything but privileged to be able to slave for him. He was always and supremely worth while. Nancy's only terrors were that something would happen to

d not want to be idle, and she did not want to be rich, but when she saw women younger th

er their adventure, found themselves close to a low, wide-spreading Colonial house, with striped awnings shading its wide porches, and g

see some member of the club! "Oh, it is a club then," Bert asked, a

hundred casual eyes. He and Nancy chatted quite naturally about their mistake, as they re-crossed the rustic bridge,

r be-to belong to a t

h, it isn't so much. A hundred initia

at-some year,"

the thing decently. It means signing checks for tea, and cocktails, and keeping a car, and the Lord know

ople get the money?" N

ked commo

bedroom, and thought darkly of fate. She came of gentle stock, and she would meet her lot bravely, but oh, how she longed

st of the precious week-end. Nancy heard a clock somewhere strike ten, and then the single stroke for the h

er arose, stricken, and

nd she had forg

of his playfellow his four new teeth came suddenly into sight. Here was "Mugger," the unfailing solace and cheer of his life. He gav