And by the time it was absolutely dark they had washed the dishes and sat before Lou's tent looking over the night lights of The Corner and hearing the voice of its Great White Way opening.

"She has kept house for me!" He pointed out Lou's tent to his companion and the big man, with a single low word of warning, threw open the flap of the tent and strode in.

He could distinguish no words, but he caught the murmur of Lou's voice as she talked to Jack Landis, and it had that infinitely gentle quality which only a woman's voice can have, and only when she nurses the sick.

"Honey," she began fondly, "I've been putting away Pap's things to-dayjest like you oncet found me putting away Lou's.

Only Lou's violent temper and intense hatred of her enemies kept the woman from being adamant in matters moral or spiritual.

"How did you manage, Lou, to get that handle before the Marvin?" "Oh, do shut up!" was Lou's emphatic reply.

"Hired a lot of new hands, for one thing," was Lou's prompt answer, "and raised the salaries of more than half the clerks in the building!" "Is that so, really?" asked a dozen voices.

Little Lou's Sayings and Doings.

" She had hardly uttered these words, when there was a ring at the doorbell, then a stamping of feet on the mat, to shake off the snow, and in they Came, Lou, and Lou's papa, and Lou's mamma, bringing ever so much fresh, cold air with them.

" She had hardly uttered these words, when there was a ring at the doorbell, then a stamping of feet on the mat, to shake off the snow, and in they Came, Lou, and Lou's papa, and Lou's mamma, bringing ever so much fresh, cold air with them.

Little Lou's Sayings and Doings.

In less than a month of it she wrote one of her best children's books, Little Lou's Sayings and Doings; and much of the remainder was spent in discussing with her husband the project of building a cottage of their own.

The following is part of the notice in the London Daily News: "We are, unfortunately, ignorant of Little Susy's Six Birthdays, but if that book be anything like as good as the charming volume before us by the same author, ycleped Little Lou's Sayings and Doings, it deserves an extraordinary popularity....

Little Lou's Sayings and Doings.

Great Aunt Lou's Christmas party.

Great Aunt Lou's Christmas party.