as they went. Elnora did not know it, but that was her initiation. She
belonged to "the crowd." She only knew that she was happy, and vaguely
wondered what her mother and Aunt Margaret would have said about the
proceedings.




CHAPTER VII


WHEREIN MRS. COMSTOCK MANIPULATES MARGARET AND BILLY ACQUIRES A
RESIDENCE


Saturday morning Elnora helped her mother with the work. When she had
finished Mrs. Comstock told her to go to Sintons' and wash her Indian
relics, so that she would be ready to accompany Wesley to town in the
afternoon. Elnora hurried down the road and was soon at the cistern
with a tub busily washing arrow points, stone axes, tubes, pipes, and
skin-cleaning implements.

Then she went home, dressed and was waiting when the carriage reached
the gate. She stopped at the bank with the box, and Sinton went to do
his marketing and some shopping for his wife.

At the dry goods store Mr. Brownlee called to him, "Hello, Sinton! How
do you like the fate of your lunch box?" Then he began to laugh--

"I always hate to see a man laughing alone," said Sinton. "It looks so