There was little or no profit in providing for them, for the rates paid by the two last named were not high, and their demands were at times almost unreasonable.

Miss Timpson had a new idea now, that of giving up the room she had occupied since coming to the Barnes boarding-house and moving her belongings into the suite at the rear of the second floor, that comprising the large room and the little back bedroom adjoining, the latter the scene of Thankful's spooky adventure on the first night of her arrival in East Wellmouth.

These rooms ordinarily rented for much more than Miss Timpson had paid for her former apartment, but she had no thought of paying more for them.

"Of course I shouldn't expect to get 'em for the same if 'twas summer," she explained to Thankful, "but just now, with 'em standin' empty, I might as well move there as not.

I know you'll be glad to have me, won't you, Mrs.Barnes, you and me being such good friends by this time." And Thankful, although conscious of an injustice somewhere, did not like to refuse her "good friend." So she consented and Miss Timpson moved into the back rooms.