dead; and Carrie's Louis; and Willie Schnitt with Flora Kraus, whom
he was to marry two years from last Easter; and Lulu, who was
pretty, and went with American boys in the face of broken-hearted
opposition.

In front of each member of the party--except the baby--was a glass
of beer and a "hot dog", and down the center of the long table were
three pasteboard shoe boxes, full of fine lunch, flanking Flora
Kraus' fancy basket of potato salad and fried chicken, as well
prepared as any those Schnitts could put up.

It was Constance who, walking quietly with Johnny, discovered
Heinrich Schnitt in the midst of his throng and casually remarked
it.

"There's the nice old German who cuts my coats," she observed.

"Schnitt!" exclaimed Johnny, so loudly that she was afraid Schnitt
might hear him. "Let me hear you talk to him."

She looked at him in perplexity for a moment.

"Oh, yes; the lease," she remembered. "I'll introduce you and you
can ask him about it."

"Don't mention it!" hastily objected Johnny. "You may introduce me,
but you do the talking."

"All right, boss," she laughingly agreed, and turned straight over
to the head of the Schnitts' table, where she introduced her