I can't take a generation; I'd be too late." "Too late for what ?" But Allie refused to answer.

"We'll start in to-day and we'll work double tower till one of us plays out.

What d'you say ?" At first Mrs.Ring took this energetic declaration with some reserve, but before long she realized with consternation that Allie Briskow was in deep earnest and that this was not a soft berth.

Instead of obtaining a rest she was being worked as never before.

Allie was a thing of iron; she was indefatigable; and her thirst for knowledge was insatiate; it grew daily as she gained fuller understanding of her ignorance.