o well. Rummages ain't high priced. Four or five dollars! Well, if I
won't give up!"

Jack did not reply, but he was beginning to feel a good deal of interest
in the Rummage Sale, and his interest increased when he went in to see
Eloise, and heard from her that she was going down in the evening, as
Ruby Ann said it would be more lively then, with more people present and
possibly an auction.

"Tim is to wheel me," she said, "and has promised not to run into any
one, or tip me over. I feel half afraid of him, as he does stumble
some."

Jack looked at her a moment as she leaned back in her chair, her blue
dressing sacque open at the throat showing her white neck.

"Miss Smith," he said, "_I_ shan't stumble. I'll take you. I'd like to.
I'll make it right with Tim."

Eloise could not mistake the eagerness in his voice, and her cheeks
flushed as she replied, "It is very kind in you and kind in Tim, who
perhaps will be glad to be rid of the trouble."

"Of course he will," Jack said quickly. "Day after to-morrow, isn't it?
I'll see you again and arrange just when to call for you, and now I must
go. I'd forgotten that I was to drive with Howard this morning.
Good-by."

He went whistling down the walk, thinking that a Rummage Sale was more
interesting than anything which could possibly happen in the country,
and that he'd telegraph to his sister to send something for it. As he
started on his drive with Howard, he said, "Let's go first to the
telegraph office, I want to wire to Bell."

They drove to the office, and in a few minutes there flashed across the
wires to New York, "We are going to have a Rummage Sale for the poor.
Send a lot of things, old and new, it does not matter which;--only send
at once."

"I believe I made a mistake about the object of the sale. I said 'For
the poor,' and it's for a public library, isn't it?" he said to Howard,
who replied, "Seems to me you are getting daft on the Rummage. I don't
care for it much. It will be like a Jews' or pawnbroker's bazaar, with
mostly old clothes to sell."

"No, sir," Jack answered quickly. "It will not be at all like a
pawnbroker's shop. Bell will send a pile of things. I know her, and Miss
Smith is to be there in the evening, and it's going to be a great
success."

"I see," and Howard laughed immoderately. "It is going to be a great
success because Miss Smith is to be there. Is she for sale, and how is
she going? Are we to take her in a hand chair, as we ca