"Hush! You bad child! What awful ideas!"

"I've just been reading a story about a family spectre. I think they're
_most_ interesting."

"Well, we'll cut out the spook show. _I've_ no liking for clanking chains
and hollow groans!"

* * * * *

Impatiently Patty waited for the answer to her letter, and one day it
came.

Farnsworth was in New York on business, and so she put it away unopened
until his return.

"Goody girl!" he cried, when she told him. "Nice of you, dear, to let us
have the first reading together."

"Oh, I couldn't gobble it up alone,--I like everything better if I have
it with you."

And so they sat side by side on the porch, and read the long looked for
missive.

* * * * *

"DEAR COUSIN PATTY;" it began.

I was so surprised and pleased to get your letter I hardly knew what to