and statuary, and rugs and inlaid tables and chinas, with which to adorn
his home.

The house, which was very large, had a wing on either side, while the
main building was divided by a wide hall, with three rooms on each side,
the middle one being a little smaller than the other two, with each of
which it communicated by a door. And it was into this middle room on the
second floor Arthur had been put, and which he found quite too small for
his use. So he ordered both the doors to be opened and took possession
of the suite, pacing them several times, and then measuring their
length, and breadth, and height, and the distance between the windows.
Then he inspected the wing on that side of the house, and, going into
the yard, looked the building over from all points, occasionally
marking a few lines on the paper he held in his hand. Before noon every
room in the house, except the one where Dolly lay sick with a headache
had been visited and examined minutely, while Frank watched him
nervously, wondering if he would think they had greatly injured
anything, or had expended too much money on furniture. But Arthur was
thinking of none of these things, and found fault with nothing except
the drain and the gas fixtures, all of which he declared bad, saying
that the latter must be changed at once, and that ten pounds of copperas
must be bought immediately and put down the drain, and that quantities
of chloride of lime and carbolic acid must be placed where there was the
least danger of vegetable decomposition.

'I am very sensitive to smells, and afraid of them, too, for they breed
malaria and disease of all kinds,' he said to the cook, whose nose and
chin both were high in the air, not on account of any obnoxious odor,
but because of this unreasonable meddling with what she considered her
own affairs. If things were to go on in this way, she said to the