or Maria, and having lived abroad a year, knew
something of the outside world. Moreover, their
families had always been intimate in the old days,
his ancestral home being always open to Jane's
mother when a girl.

The arrival of these two strangers only added to
the general gayety. Picnics were planned to the
woods back of Warehold to which the young people
of the town were invited, and in which Billy Tatham
with his team took a prominent part. Sailing and
fishing parties outside of Barnegat were gotten up;
dances were held in the old parlor, and even tableaux
were arranged under Max's artistic guidance. In
one of these Maria wore a Spanish costume fashioned
out of a white lace shawl belonging to Jane's grand-
mother draped over her head and shoulders, and made
the more bewitching by a red japonica fixed in her
hair, and Lucy appeared as a dairy-maid decked out
in one of Martha's caps, altered to fit her shapely
head.

The village itself was greatly stirred.

"Have you seen them two fly-up-the-creeks?"
Billy Tatham, the stage-driver, asked of Uncle
Ephraim Tipple as he was driving him down to the
boat-landing.

"No, what do they look like?"