He lives just around the corner from here.

You stay here and watch the bundles and I will see if I can find him." Grace found Mr.Symes at home and quite willing to carry out the final detail of the Christmas plan.

The old man was duly sworn to secrecy and entered into the spirit of his errand almost as heartily as did Arline and Grace.

At the chosen corner the girls halted, repeated their final instructions, and drawing back into the shadow, left him to deliver the two bulky packages, his wrinkled face wreathed in smiles.
He smiled even more broadly on his return to the watchers, as Grace slipped a crisp green note into his hand and wished him a Merry Christmas.
"Now we ought to do a little celebrating on our own account," she proposed.

"Suppose we pay a visit to Vinton's.