"Miss Ford! Miss Ford!"

"Yes, Nellie, what is it?" asked Grace, as she saw a maid coming
towards her, beckoning.

"Your brother wants you on the telephone, Miss Ford," answered the
maid, "he says it's quite important, and he wants you to please
hurry."

"Excuse me," flung back Grace, as she hurried off. "I'll be back in a
minute. I hope he's going to confess where he put those chocolates."

CHAPTER II

AFTER THE PAPERS

"Hello, is this you, Will?"

"Yes, this is Grace. What did you do with my chocolates? The girls are
here, and-- Never mind about the chocolates? The idea! I like---- .
What's that? You want to go to the ball game? Will I do your errand
for you? Yes, I'm listening. Go on!"

"It's this way, Sis," explained Will over the wire from a down-town
drug store. "This morning dad told me to go over to grandmother's and
get those papers. You know; the ones in that big property deal which
has been hanging fire so long. Grandmother has the papers in her safe.
The deal is to be closed to-day. I promised dad I'd go, but I forgot
all about it, and now the fellows want me to go to the ball game with