An Englishwoman's Home

read it the words of the old hymn flashed back, "Deat

that anyway. I will take back the last adjective, and beg you to thank God that you are safe and free for a little while longer. Happy I know you and your kind will never be until you are standing shoulder to shoulder with us in this awful but glorious fight. I don't know how George'

of it? I only hope you ar

us when the Heavens darkened in 1910. He was here again at this time, the moment he could be of any use. When we are in trouble, his own

the crime. Perhaps you wonder how I can joke and play about with words in the midst of what is happening. I have to, Cornelia. Don't you understand? If I didn't I should never be able to carry on? And when

happened. Once or twice I longed to see Wang come bounding out of the unknown with his lovely face distorted, his bristles standing up and his growls like distant thunder in the air, but alas, I have to go through this thing quite alone. Himself couldn't do it-even if he weren't too busy. He would just have a stand-up fight with the government representative, and that would be an end of compensation, though no doubt Himself would enjoy the tussle immensely. We didn't know quite where to begin. A table was erected in what is left of the library, and he spread out his inventory sheets and we started in. I had made an inventory too, and the contents of the dining room came under discussion first. He had a copy of this which had been previously submitted to him through our lawyer. His business was now to assess the amount they would pay. He put down the entire contents of the glass cupboard at ten pounds. Fifty dollars of your money. I gently but firmly pointed out that there were single pieces in it that had cost that. He shook his head, and explained that

the debris, and laid, a melancholy array, on the only bed left standing, which happened to be her own. You can imagine what last year's frocks look like, especially when they have been a good deal worn, and finally come through an air raid. A torn and crumpled mass of satin and lace and chiffon,

about ten pounds each. He put down fifty pounds without a

watered it with my tears. I never knew there could be so many tears in the world. I had none to shed when the Boy went away; but somehow this has unsealed the fount

now and again when her work was done, or between whiles, and then we just stood together thinking unutterable things. She is not quite a servant, as you know, but a dear faithful, understanding friend who lives in the heart of us, and loves us every one. But mostly I was alone, my job to gather up the fragments-the little things, and try to gauge and co-ordinate the whole before the re

ish with the corner of my apron, and then took them to the pantry shelf aforesaid, where I regarded them wi

hen I got back next day, two of them had gone. I pinched myself, wondering whe

hief who took these little things. There were articles of more value beside them. No, it was some horrible woman who coveted a souvenir from the Zeppe

nd of theft. It almost deserves to have

w, this being Sunday, the workmen are coming in and the removal men, and the few sticks,

g to the garden abundance aforesaid, and our conspicuous industry and success in bottling, preserving and pickling,-the shelves simply groaned with good things, and now it is all one inextricable sticky

store cupboard at ten shillings, two dollars and a half. And I just let him, because i

l be all over and the lid shut dow

mossy wall beside the lily pond,

magined it the end of the world. Then how pleased you were, and they too, I expect, when they were put back, and the lovely clean water from the upper river ran in on them. It is very clear to-day, and there is a crooning sound in the voice of the waterfall-it sounds almost like a dirge. Summer is quite gone, and the yellowing leav

no precedent or legislation exists. We do not own, but only lease the prop

blem, and the little lines are ga

nd he won't go near the North House

they are, and how they never, never gr

, but they can't do the

ow how, but I am hard hit this t