d the child, for her days were zealously planned by her
enthusiastic guardians. Beulah came at ten o'clock every morning to
give her lessons. As Jimmie's quest for work grew into a more and more
disheartening adventure, she had difficulty in getting him out of bed
in time to prepare and clear away the breakfast for Beulah's arrival.
After lunch, to which Jimmie scrupulously came home, she was supposed
to work an hour at her modeling clay. Gertrude, who was doing very
promising work at the art league, came to the studio twice a week to
give her instruction in handling it. Later in the afternoon one of the
aunts or uncles usually appeared with some scheme to divert her.
Margaret was telling her the stories of the Shakespeare plays, and
David was trying to make a card player of her, but was not succeeding
as well as if Albertina had not been brought up a hard shell Baptist,
who thought card playing a device of the devil's. Peter alone did not
come, for even when he was in town he was busy in the afternoon.

As soon as her guests were gone, Eleanor hurried through such
housewifely tasks as were possible of accomplishment at that hour, but
the strain was telling on her. Jimmie began to realize this and it
added to his own distress. One night to save her the labor of
preparing the meal, he took her to an Italian restaurant in the
neighborhood where the food was honest and palatable, and the service
at least deft and clean.

Eleanor enjoyed the experience extremely, until an incident occurred
which robbed her evening of its sweetness and plunged her into the
purgatory of the child who has inadvertently broken one of its own
laws.

Among the belongings in the carpetbag, which was no more--having been
supplanted by a smart little suit-case marked with her initials--was a
certificate from the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, duly
signed by herself, and witnessed by the grammar-school teacher and the
secretary of the organization. On this certificate (which was
decorated by many presentations in dim black and white of
mid-Victorian domestic life, and surmounted by a collection of
scalloped clouds in which drifted three amateur looking angels amid a
crowd of more professional cherubim) Eleanor had pledged herself to
abstain from the use as a beverage of all intoxicating drinks, and
from the manufacture or traffic in them. She had also subscribed
herself as willing to make direct and persevering efforts to extend
the prin