The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13

ter with them?"
 Peggy, thus encouraged, lent herself to description with great deal of tal- ent, both natural and acquired. The young man learned with astonishment about the walls that never had been cleaned since the year 1, and the stairs that threatened to come down with you if you weighed more than fourteen pounds, and the windows that had panes broken out which you were obliged to stuff with old clothes.
 An yet they come there collectin' rent, bold as brass!" proclaimed Peggy, with an indignant sniff The old man turned purple.
 "Sayl" exclaimed the young man, after little pause. Kind of Tom All-Alone's, is it? This Is too bad, you know, if it's really true. And this is the legacy I've fallen into-and I was about to go to Europe, and not hear anything about it. You should have told me the state of things, MT. Rea- gan. Anyhow, I'll look into it, and if the house needs fixing. little girl-and fix it all up-that won't be quite so fierce, will it?"
 He had found Peggy's blue eyes un- der Mrs. Rafferty's hat, and there was glint in them, you may be sure. But Peggy had seen a great deal of the world. She almost held her breath as she asked:
 "An' the rent not raised?"
 And the rent not raised" he prom ised her. gravely.
 Peggy hugged her bundles against Mrs. Rafferty's apron and stood on one foot.
 +Oh," she gasped, eth ain't but ono thing more in all the world 70 wanti But do you know anybody that's got roller chair they don't need any more?"
 'T think I know just such a person." said the young man. while the out ragged old man began to turn black
 Peggy hopped round, exposing the deficiencies of Mrs. Rafferty's apron and of her own hosiery.
 "Oh, it's Mis- Brownin' down on the first," she cried. "An' she's lived in that house ten years. an never put her head out-o' o'-doors-an' it ain't no fun to stay in that house ten yearsi An Mike Riffey could lift 'er into the chair. an the rest of us could take turns rollin' Ter on the sidewalk I've studied about it an studied about it. Is it far to that place where they've got the chair?"
 Not very far" said the young man.
 Then can I ride home in it?" asked Peggy, her hands clasped above her bundles. I've always been just crazy to ride in one O them roller chairs."
 And there was that twitching in the young mans lips again; but he took Peggy's hand and carried her bundles, and they set out in quest of the in valid-chair He even put Peggy into an automobile-and what an expert ence that was-if the twins had only been there-and laughed with great enjoyment, not seeming to mind the apron or the hat in the least.
 And the roller chair was found apparently brand-new one-and Peg gy rode home in it, to the intense nor tification of a dignified negro porter, whom nothing but liberal tip recon oiled to his fate.
 The young man in the gray suit fol- lowed unnoticed a little way behind, and saw an amazed juvenile popula- tion swarming out of doors and alley ways with shrieks of:
 'Well, if there ain't Peggy"
 But Peggy, waving an imaginary fan | and looking at them through an imag mary lorgnette, after the manner of | the finest of the ladies who ''slummed" there and in the regions beyond, an swered languidly: How do you do. me dears?"
 But the next moment she informed | them ioyfully. i've been a-hobnobbin' with the King O EnSland."
 At the door of the Mason building she sprang from the chair into the arms of the anxious Raffertys.
 There's mittens for the twins" she "an' a comforter for Mr Rafferty. an gloves for you. an two sticks O candy for the twins. an han'kerchief apiece. an the house is goin' to be fixed up all over. an the roller chair is for Mis- Brownin'. wanted to git you set O furs," she added. regretfully, "but you can't git