tting in. Already many of those who had spent much of the summer there were gone. Other

st grand time in the form of a masquerade dance. They did n

arty at Warren Hatch's cott

tend the dance; but she offered to assis

? We'll have to go without special preparation i

sulting in a low tone with Mr. Hatch, who smil

per part of the cottage, leaving

rigs, and Hodge took the Indian outfit

r came from above, indicating tha

d announced that the girls woul

on the finishing t

"chaps," woolen shirt, and wide-brimmed hat, a loose belt about his waist, with a pistol peepin

, madam," said Frank. "I opine they'd better hurry some, for we'll

s Indian rig, flourishing a tom

cried. "White w

treating toward the table and su

n a corner of the room where the shadows were deepest, and the surprised witnesses seemed to see through their white draperies the gleaming outlines of the upp

ge, while Frank pretend

upright, uttering

o the dim light the skeleton

e the real things,

o," nod

to laughter and Mrs. Me

tly garments for the girls, fitting them with a skill which partly revealed and partly concealed the

ons we saw?" qu

ord. "I drew the skeleton outlines on the sheets with ph

Hodge. "Now we're all right. There'll be g

on of their costumes, th

confessed Browning. "But I'll stay

can take care of her,"

at, it's quite a walk over there, and I'd get tired

ery still, and the moon was just rising above the tr

re came the sound of music and th

dford. "If anything happens to them I'll never f

they are quite safe in our care. We'll guard them with ou

would happen befor