applied the tonic. It seemed a shame to waste that now with a shampoo,
and she did not dare to go for another dish of the tonic; so Kate
sighed and consoled herself with a dollar saved, and went without the
manicure also.

Rather incoherently she returned to her subject, but she did not
succeed in giving Miss Rose anything more than a confused idea of a
trip somewhere that would really be an outing, and a tremendous
opportunity to make thousands of dollars with very little effort. This
sounded alluring. Marion mentally cancelled a date with a party going
to Venice that evening, and agreed to meet Kate at six o'clock, and
hear more about it.

In the candy shop where they ate, her mind was even more receptive to
tremendous opportunities for acquiring comparative wealth with
practically no initial expense and no effort whatever. Not being
subjected to the distraction of a beauty parlor, Kate forgot to use
her carefully modulated, elocutionary voice, and buzzed with details.

"It's away up in the northern part of the State somewhere, in the
mountains. You know timber land is going to be tremendously
valuable--it is now, in fact. And this tract of beautiful big trees
can be gotten and flumed--or something--down to a railroad that taps
the country. It's in Forest Reserve, you see, and can't be bought by
the lumber companies. I had the professor explain it all to me again,
after I left the Martha, so I could tell you.

"A few of us can club together and take mining claims on the
land--twenty acres apiece. All we have to do is a hundred dollars'
worth of work--just digging holes around on it, or something--every