CHAPTER XXIII "BAGGED," AND NO MISTAKE "Plebes Flint and Austin are having a good many callers," remarked Dave Darrin, halting by the door of quarters before he and Dan entered.

"The callers all seem to be third classmen.

"I can't have gentlemen callers there at all now.

Lock the door when I came to see you, because it was past eight o'clock, and not answer my letters?" "Can't have men callers now dad's away," she told him, a little brusquely.

There's no pomp of preparation, there's no style or sham or fuss; We are glad to welcome callers who are glad to be with us, And we sit around and visit or we start a merry game,

They were interrupted by some callers.

They'd ask me questions, too; and I'd have you consider, Miss Dorothea, that though not shaken down to it yetnot, as you might say, in a state to expect callers or make them properly welcomeI'm a respectable married woman.

When callers came, she felt like a colt making its first acquaintance with harness.

He had that afternoon received a very fine consignment of Brazilian diamonds, as he told me, and knowing how beset I am with callers at my business place, he had brought the stones with him, hoping, perhaps, to do a bit of trade over the nuts and wine.

TOLBRIDGE'S CALLERS The next day was a very fine one, and as the roads were now good, and the air mild, Miss Panney thought it was quite time that she should begin to go about and see her friends without depending on the vehicles of other people, so she ordered her little phaeton and her old roan mare, and drove herself to Thorbury to see Mrs. Tolbridge.

They had looked with pride at an abominable reproduction of their father's photograph in the evening paper of La Chance, and they had added an acquaintance with the manners of newspaper reporters to their already very heterogeneous experience with callers of every variety; but of real anxiety the episode had brought them nothing.

Sometimes they had a satisfactory visit with each other, two or three callers happening to meet together before the fire, and went away without having seen any of the Marshalls.

Of course, there had been callers.

But what was the callers' surprise when they passed Matilda's cottage to see someone planting flowers around the stoop.

Will you let me tell him how it happened, and how sorry I am?" Willie was not receiving callers this evening.

If a man has no specific intentions towards a girl, and has not determined in his own mind that he wants to marry her; if he is only liking her a great deal, with but an occasional wonder in the depths of his own heart whether this girl is the wife for him; to call upon her casually and see the family scatter, and other callers hastily leave, is enough to scare him to death.

The Brown Study had many callers.

The heavy mahogany door was opened by a slovenly girl, who ushered the callers into the front parlor, which was carefully darkened, according to the custom of the day.

With a wave of her jewelled right hand she performed the ceremony of introduction between the three callers and Mrs. Frumpthe fat young ladywho also carefully raised herself about two inches from her chair, and lowered herself again, without disarranging a ripple.

In compliance with an invitation from Miss Whedell, the three callers sat down.

"Would you believe it, Mr. Maltboyhere are two hours gone, and we have not had more thanhow many callers have we had, Gusty?

We have had fifty callers, to my certain knowledge.

" Greatly to the relief of the three callers, who were seized with a desire to laugh aloud during this short, snapping dialogue, a bell rang, and a new figure entered upon the scene.

"She is some connection, I believe, of the queer old Dutchman that I spoke of, and is probably only helping Miss Whedell to receive callers.

When the little man reached the first landing he looked back, and directed a strange, suspicious glance at the callers.