about your promise. Wren is counting on results."

"What promise?" asked Ed.

"Oh, don't you know?" replied Cora. "Well, I am afraid Jack will
have to tell you. We really have not another moment. Are you
ready, girls?"

"Why, our strange promise," put in Maud, who was glad to have a
"real remark" to make to Ed. "We promised a little girl we would
find an old table for her and we have just ransacked the farmer's
house, hoping to find it.

Cora burst out laughing. Such an explanation!

"Why, I'll promise a `little girl' that," said Ed, taking up
Cora's laugh. "Any qualifications? Might it be a time-table?"

Maud pouted. She stepped into Cora's car, evidently disgusted
with boys in general.

Gertrude had something to say to Walter, and was obliged to stand
up on the hay rack to do so, as the young man would not let go the
rope that held the ram.

There was a sudden hum of an auto, and Clip was gone.

"Thought she had a sick relative," murmured Bess.

"So she has," said Jack, who overheard the remark. "But she came