yes and masses of dark hair and she
spoke not a single word of English. Tufik's joy was boundless; his soft
eyes were snapping with excitement; and Aggie, who is sentimental, was
obliged to go out and swallow half a glass of water without breathing to
keep from crying. Charlie Sands said nothing, but sat back in a corner
and watched us all; and once he took out his notebook and made a
memorandum of something. He showed it to us later.

Tufik's sister was the calmest of us all, I believe. She sat on a stiff
chair near the door and turned her brown eyes from one to the other.
Tish said that proper clothing would make her beautiful; and Aggie,
disappearing for a few minutes, came back with her last summer's foulard
and a jet bonnet. When the poor thing understood they were for her, she
looked almost frightened, the thing being unexpected; and Tufik, in a
paroxysm of delight, kissed all our hands and the girl on each cheek.

Tish says our vulgar lip-osculation is unknown in the Orient and that
they rub noses by way of greeting. I think, however, that she is
mistaken in this and that the Australians are the nose-rubbers. I recall
a returned missionary's telling this, but I cannot remember just where
he had been stationed.

Things were very quiet for a couple of weeks. Tufik came round only
once--to tell us that, having to pay car fare to get to the automobile
school, his nine dollars were not enough. We added a dollar a week under
protest; and Tish suggested with some asperity that as he was only busy
four hours a day he might find some light employment for the balance of
the day. He spread out his hands and drew up his shoulders.

"My friends are angry," he said sadly. "It is not enough that I study? I
must also work? Ver' well, I labor. I sell the newspaper. But, to buy
newspapers, one must have money--a dollar; two dollars. Ver' leetle;
only--I have it not."

We gave him another dollar and he went out smiling and hopeful. It
seemed that at last we had solved his problem. Tish recalled one of her
Sunday-school scholars who sold papers and saved enough to buy a
second-hand automobile and rear a family. But our fond hopes were dashed
to the ground when, the next morning, Hannah, opening the door at Tish's
to bring in the milk bottles, found a huge stack of the night-before's
newspapers and a note on top addressed to Tish, which said:-

_Deer Mother Tish_: You see now that I am no good. I wish to die!
I hav one papi