We were desired to mount a ladder to a loft like a corn-floor, badly tiled in, and divided into four parts by boards about five feet high.

But now her face had something dead about it, something missinglike a beautifully-tiled fireplace with its polished brass fittings, on whose grate lie only the embers of a fire long dead.

Wait here," and with scant courtesy the old servant left Alice standing in the blue-tiled hallway, near a long diamond-paned window.

" He looked dubiously down the rugged side and mentally measured the distance from the base to the low tiled roof.

That tree with upright branches, and large, dark, glossy leaves tiled upwards along them, is the Mammee Sapota, {311a} beautiful likewise.