Do you agree ?" "Certainly; and how can I be of assistance ?" "If you could go back to the house, and keep Sallie busy in the kitchen for an hour; hold her there at something so as to give me free range of the house." "With Sallie!" she lifted her hands in aversion.

"It does n't seem as though I could stand that.

But," she added, rising resolutely to her feet, "I will if you wish it.

Of course I ought to do what little I can.

Why, what is this?
a seal ring ?" She stooped, and picked the article up from the floor, out of a litter of dead leaves, and held it to the light between her fingers.