Nancy Brandon

Are you

, de

someone k

getti

cking c

et up and answer that noise. See wha

quiet, Mother

go. It's you

just talking, as Nancy defined it. Mrs. Brandon had been dressing when the early kn

goods left by the travelling salesman, seized Nancy. She crept to the top of the stairs to

was chatting pleasantly with whoever the early vis

She must be ready early. All signs pointed to an early patronage, and although Ted had declared he

calling in a

tirring," she said. "I want to leave things rea

plied over the balustrade. "I

Brandon was still r

red Nancy. "Wait, I'll run down and

ely tucked her hair tidily into a cap, and in slippers

" she asked

indifferently. "He wanted a little model of some sor

claimed. "Why, we were wondering what

for mystery in Mr. Sanders' doings. I would call him a very pleasant gentleman. Here

ing a preliminary start before being put

s queer. Whatever could he want a thing like that fo

ight have been swept away in the tumult," Mrs. Brandon replied. This seemed to satisfy Nancy's inquiries, but secretly Mrs. Brandon herself was just a little puzzled about Mr. Sanders. For instance, it had been very

er. She confessed to having waked more than once

her confided. "I want you and the girls to enjoy yourselves in spite o

almost spilling the last spoonful of grape fruit. "Aren't you too ducky! We'll have

ngs," replied her mother. "Of course, one bric

e'll get every body out and close up shop fr

er of excitement. Her mother went into town as usual on the seven forty-five trolley, and even then there was a waiting list

st. "The girls won't be here until eight, and you've got to go outside and try

ther look at the paper which he was not supposed to read at the table.

er. "You take it as easy as if we

ng to move his plump little self from the table.

bout this sale, and we've got to get busy." Nancy was peering anxiously out of t

ed Ted. He was trying to set his blou

She's gone awa

y," snapped Ted. "I c

ocked Nancy. "She would feel

ing on the door. You had better open it or

tter open it. Why didn't you fix up a little," she argued, looking criticall

at's a grand idea. Why, Nan, the fell

w becoming so insistent that both brother

e may as well face it. But don't let them back of t

and Ted ente

them!" ga

ace that could command a view of inside the store, and they looked so funny, the f

cy fumbled with the door lock. "Wh

he door, there was the

the boys seemed actually

Whoever doesn't behave ca

no effect upon t

e!" shouted Rory Jennings.

insisted another. Ted called him Shedd

n't see anything else but freckles. "Please missus," he entreated,

using all his strength to make matters worse. "She

. The fact that goods were offered at the very lowest figure possible, that a twenty-five cent ball of fish line was marked ten

ing the other, had done much to make the

a group of boys had laid hold of the fish-hook bo

ers was being carted off to the door, by Jud Morgan and Than Beach. They said they only wanted to p

look out and see if the girls are coming

ct they were just then elbowing

uth joyfully. "Isn't this grand!

in here fifteen minutes and I haven't sold

. Evidently she knew or thought she

get in line!"

series of laugh

nsisted, raising her vo

t us to clap?" answered

"If you boys really want to buy anything

de a dash for the first place in line, and the tumult

put you all out?" demanded T

r, pretending to roll u

on, for those boys were tumbling around the floor and actually figh

" came a

igh stool that stood by what used to be Miss Towns

the window sills or any place, I'll tell you about some of the most interesting

tain" that crowd of boys, dropped "in their traces," and it

out a sea captain even if they are