plays the piano in my room. It has kept me
out of the letting of it more than once. But
the family doesn't seem to mind -- the family
that lives here, you know. They will be back
in September. Yes."

Boyce left her nodding her thanks at what
he had placed in her hand, and went home to
write it all to Babette -- Babette who would
laugh so merrily when she read it!




AN ASTRAL ONION


WHEN Tig Braddock came to Nora
Finnegan he was red-headed and
freckled, and, truth to tell, he re-
mained with these features to the
end of his life -- a life prolonged by a lucky,
if somewhat improbable, incident, as you shall
hear.

Tig had shuffled off his parents as saurians,
of some sorts, do their skins. During the
temporary absence from home of his mother,
who was at the bridewell, and the more ex-
tended vacation of his father, who, like Vil-