tle
pans for developing in, and all."

Inside the camera was a message to the effect that Mr. Shaw hoped his
niece would be pleased with his present and that it would add to the
summer's pleasures,

"He's getting real uncley, isn't he?" Patience observed. Then she
caught sight of the samples Pauline had let fall. "Oh, how pretty!
Are they for dresses for us?"

"They'd make pretty scant ones, I'd say," Pauline, answered.

"Silly!" Patience spread the bright scraps out on her blue checked
gingham apron. "I just bet you've been choosing! Why didn't you call
me?"

"To help us choose?" Pauline asked, with a laugh.

But at the present moment, her small sister was quite impervious to
sarcasm. "I think I'll have this," she pointed to a white ground,
closely sprinkled with vivid green dots.

"Carrots and greens!" Pauline declared, glancing at her sister's red
curls. "You'd look like an animated boiled dinner! If you please, who
said anything about your choosing?"

"You look ever so nice in all white, Patty," Hilary said hastily.

"Have you and Paul chosen all white?"

"N-no."

"Then I shan't!" She looked up quickly, her blue eyes very persuasive.
"I don't very often have a brand new, just-out-of-the-store dress, do
I?"

Pauline laughed. "Only don't let it be the green then. Good, here's
mother, at last!"

"Mummy, is blue or green better?" Patience demanded.

Mrs. Shaw examined and duly admired the camera, and decided in favor of
a blue dot; then she said, "Mrs. Boyd is down-stairs, Hilary."

"How nice!" Hilary jumped up. "I want to see her most particularly."

"Bless me, child!" Mrs. Boyd exclaimed, as Hilary came into the
sitting-room, "how you are getting on! Why, you don't look like the
same girl of three weeks back."

Hilary sat down beside her on the sofa. "I've got a most tremendous
favor to ask, Mrs. Boyd."

"I'm glad to hear that! I hear you young folks are having fine times
lately. Shirley was telling me about the club the other night."

"It's about the club--and it's in two parts; first, won't you and Mr.
Boyd be honorary members?--That means you can come to the good times if
you like, you know.--And the other is--you see, it's my turn next--"
And when Pauline came down, she found the two deep in consultation.

The next afternoon, Patience carried out her long-intended plan of
calling at the manor. Mrs. Shaw was from home for the day, Pauline and
Hilary were out in the trap w