The unspeakable idiot, to send me a wire worded like that! Nowonder Clara J. was sitting on the ice cream freezer! 0f courseit only meant that Bunch's sister and her daughter were coming outto look at their property, but--suffering mackerel! what an eyeClara J. was giving me!

"And who are the two queens?" she queried, bitterly.

My face grew blackder and blackder. Every minute I expected to turninto a complete boiled lobster. I could see somebody reaching forthe mayonaise to sprinkle me.