"I don't suppose we'll mind having any of 'em as much as we thought we would.
Good-bye." But her mother detained her, catching her by the arm.

"Alice, you do hate it, don't you!" "No," the girl said, quickly.

"There wasn't anything else to do." Mrs.Adams became emotional at once: her face cried tragedy, and her voice misfortune.

"There MIGHT have been something else to do! Oh, Alice, you gave your father bad advice when you upheld him in taking a miserable little ninety-three hundred and fifty from that old wretch! If your father'd just had the gumption to hold out, they'd have had to pay him anything he asked.

If he'd just had the gumption and a little manly COURAGE----" "Hush!" Alice whispered, for her mother's voice grew louder.