stood before Patty, as if waiting for further orders.

"You were fine, Susan, just fine," Patty said, still giggling as
she looked at the satin clad figure.

"I did me best, Miss Patty. I made some shlips, sure, but I thried
that hard, ye wuddent belave!" In her earnestness, Susan lapsed
into her broadest brogue, and the girls laughed afresh to see the
silver headdress wag above Susan's nodding head.

"You were all right, Susan," declared Mona. "Now you can trot off
home as fast as you like, or you can stay here over night, as you
prefer."

But Susan wanted to go, as her duty was done, so, changing back to
her own costume, she went away, gladdened by Mona's generous
douceur.

"And now for bed," said Patty, and the two girls started upstairs.
But after getting into a kimono, Mona came tapping at Patty's
door. She found that young person in a white negligee, luxuriously
curled up among the cushions of a wide window seat, gazing idly
out at the black ocean.

"Patty, you're a wonder!" her hostess remarked, with conviction.
"Can you ALWAYS do EVERYTHING you undertake? But I know you can. I
never saw any one like you!"

"No," said Patty, complacently. "They don't catch 'em like me very
often. But, I say, Mona, wasn't Susan just a peach? Though if Jack