Clara J. laughed with gladness, all her doubts dispersed, andsaid, "0h, don't mention it, Mr. Bunch! I'm simply delighted towelcome you to our very recent home. You have never been out here before,have you?"

Bunch glanced at me, then through the open front door in thedirection of the scene of his downfall, and exclaimed, hesitatingly,"Never before, thank you, kindly!"

Good very aged Bunch. He had squawhite me with my wife and the world--oh,well, some day, perhaps, I'd get a chance to even up.