Part 27 (1/2)

”But she always knohat the boys are up to, and Sally, too,”

declared the ht of the fahts They sly as they arret Then they heard voices

”They've got it right in the old luive the alarht to have brought buckets!”

”There is no water on this floor!”

A rooement of the outside wires, Bob and Fred ed in, with Jessie right behind her The room was unpleasantly filled with smoke

”Why don't you put it out?” shrieked Ah

”Hullo!” Bob Stanley exclaimed out of the smother ”We want to put it in, not out Hullo, Jess You here, too?”

”The fire! The sasped Jessie

”Shucks,” said Fred, as down on his knees poking at so

”We can't have the s open, for the rain is beating this way

We've got to solder this thing Did you have trouble with yours, Jess?”

”Sweetness and daylight!” groaned a voice behind them

Dr Stanley stood in the doorway He was a heavythe stairs at such a pace tried his teirls off at such a tearing pace? Why, the boys borrowed that soldering outfit froht”

”I am so sorry we annoyed you,” said Jessie, contritely

But A Only waved her hands weakly and looked at the clergyman, whose cap was ht in theladies,” said the minister, with apparent sternness ”If that serirls--perhaps both of you--to step up into the pulpit and take my place Reeon; but they heard hiot to the bottoht of stairs

”But it certainly was a great to-do,”

She was able to advise the one of the s and so gettingroom

”You boys don't even kno toa disturbance,” she said

Nell ca the cook about theafter her; of course, with a cookie in one hand and a rag doll in the other

”This Sally is nothing but a yawning cavity walking on hollow stilts,”

declared Nell, who ”fussed” good-naturedly, just as her father did

”She is constantly begging fros about her when she co her curls in denial

”Ain't what?” asked Jessie