em won't set her cap for Dick, he loves music so dearly. Then you
know the young boy student who was nearly starving when Dick rescued
him, and the old Baron who wears a wig, and the half dozen others? But
no matter how queer and funny they may be, they can be no more so than
our pensioners. There is Miss McMurtry herself and Anthony Graham, and
Dr. Barton moving into town to have an office in our old library. I
wonder sometimes if he and Rose are still friends. They had a
disagreement once out at the cabin and she just speaks to him since."

Then Betty Ashton hesitated and devoted herself to finishing her
breakfast.

"I am sure I don't understand why you fail to mention Herr Crippen,
child, who is to have a room here with us and teach his pupils in our
big drawing room. I am glad he has been so successful with his music
pupils that he is able to give Esther the advantage of studying in New
York. I wish you did not have such a ridiculous prejudice against him.
Indeed, my dear, I have a very strong reason for insisting that you be
kind to him. He is Esther's father and----"

Mrs. Ashton spoke more firmly than was usual with her.

But Betty shrugged her shoulders imperceptibly. "Oh, of course I am
glad enough to have the Professor here and I have never said I did not
like him. But I am specially happy that Edith Norton's family has
moved away so she is to have a room with us. I am kind of lonely
without Polly and Esther, and somehow Edith,"----Betty broke off
abruptly. Not even to her mother did she feel like mentioning the fact
that Edith did not seem to be turning out quite so well as the other
Sunrise Camp Fire girls.

With a hurried movement she next picked up the breakfast tray,
exclaiming:

"Thank heavens we are not going to have to give our lodgers anything
but their rooms and that Martha is coming back to do our cooking and
the cleaning. Good old soul to offer to do it without pay. She said
that she could not bear living anywhere except with us and that she had
enough of father's money stored away in bank not to need any more. But
we could not have had her work without pay." Betty kissed her mother
lightly on the forehead. "If any one else turns up today and wishes a
room, just refer them to me. I'm afraid I won't leave us a bed to
sleep in. I am getting so anxious to surprise Dick by really earning a
lot of money."

"Well, don't rent the back room that Esther used to have, Betty. You