Ezekiel's house. We shall stay to supper, but will get back before
you lock up--ten o'clock, isn't it?"

"No such hours in a hotel. We're allus open till twelve, and
sometimes all night--when it pays. It's a hard life, but you know
what's goin' on an' that's considruble for a woman who's tied up in
the house as I am."




CHAPTER V

'ZEKE PETTINGILL'S FARM


Quincy had intended to drive to his brother-in-law's house, but Alice
preferred to walk as the distance was so short. The Hawkins House was
on Mason Street. A short walk brought them to Mason Square. In plain
view were the Town Hall and the Chessman Free Public Library.

"I always thought it was foolishness to name these streets after me,"
said Quincy, as they stood on the corner of Sawyer Street. "There's
Adams Street back of the Town Hall and Quincy Street on the other
side."

"I don't agree with you," said Alice. "I would rather have a street
named after me than a monument erected to my memory."

At Putnam Square they turned to the left into Pettingill Street and