that the keynote to cookery was
gumption and with a good recipe and plenty of that ingredient she could
master even anything as intricate as angel's food.

"I can make biscuit and coffee and waffles and scrambled eggs and tea
and cinnamon toast, too. I know so many ways to please an
archvillain," she said to Alice.

"And I know how to make batter bread and jelly roll. I am certainly
coming to see you some time and show you my stunts," said Alice.

"Fine but you will have to be a Swede. I didn't ask my new employer
about company but I guess he won't object, just so I give him something
fit to eat and clean up his house."

Alice Chisholm took over the business of getting canvassers and
planning the work with such efficiency that Josie was delighted. "I
never could have done it so well. I know the boss will thank his stars
that I had to go cook for Chester Hunt and was forced to employ a
so-called assistant."

"I am quite crazy about it," said Alice. "I always loved organizing and
bossing and it so happens I am always the one to be organized and
directed. Now, my talents have full scope. I am going to canvass some
myself and I tell you I am going to show some of these women how to
work."

At five o'clock, sharp, Josie was installed in the kitchen of the old
Waller house.

"You will find the raw materials in the refrigerator. I am to have a
gentleman to dine with me. Dinner at seven." Chester Hunt's tone was
one of command and his manner not an agreeable one. Josie could well
understand that the girls in the business world did not find him so
agreeable as the society girls.

"All right, sir! I bane on time. Must I cuke everything I find in the
refrigerator?"

"Heavens, no! Just get up a good dinner. If you don't know how you
better say so and get out before you start."

"I bane asking, but if you don't want me to ask I bane smart enough to
yump in."

"All right then 'yump in,'" he said, laughing in spite of being in a
decidedly bad temper.

Josie "yumped in" with a will. By the process of selection from what
she found in the pantry and refrigerator she concocted a good dinner
and had it on the table at seven o'clock. This was something of a feat,
because every cooking utensil had to be scoured before she could use it
and even the china and silver was not fit to put on the table without a
thorough washing.

"My, I wish I had Elizabeth Wright's mother here!" Josie said to
herself. "Wouldn't she have the t