But Aunt Thankful--Oh, Auntie, are you--" Aunt Thankful herself interrupted.

Her voice was vigorous enough, but it sounded as if smothered beneath a heavy weight.
"No, no," she gasped.

"I--I'm all right.

I'm all right.

Or I guess I shall be when you get--off of me." "Judas priest!" cried Winnie S., and sprang to the scene.