You can sleep in the spare chamber to-night .-- Mother Kinzer, I couldn't say enough about this house business if I talked all night.

It must have cost you a deal of money.

I couldn't have dared to ask it.

I guess you must kiss me again." A curious thing it was that came next,--one that nobody could have reckoned on.

Mrs.Kinzer--good soul--had set her heart on having Ham and Miranda's house "ready for them" on their return; and now Ham seemed to be so pleased about it, she actually began to cry.