It was about eight o'clockthe day had begun to droop in his gardenthat he walked up and down the beds admiring his carnations.

Let me see," he proceeded, counting the empty bottles, "four bottles between four of you, the contents of at least two bottles here, anddear me, the carnations, too!"

At the flower market he bought a white carnation from a woman in green apron and wooden shoes, who looked in awe at his pale, grave face, and thrilled when he gave her a smile and friendly word.

The painter, we say, might have better finished those carnations, those draperies, those prospects.

I mean pink carnations.

She was unable to help referring constantly to the hit she made in Peril at Manchester in 1887; nor could she ever resist speaking of the young man who sent her red carnations every day of his blighted existence for fifteen years; a pure romance, indeed, for, as she owned, he never even wished to be introduced to her.

' He took a dark red carnation out of one of the vases and pinned it on to her coat.

While she watered her stocks, or tied up her carnations, she was enabled to throw an occasional keen glance in at the open doorway on either side of her; she knew precisely what Mrs. Barnes had for dinner, and how large was Mrs. Frizzel's wash.

Once, in fact, the blurry figure of what might have been a woman leaned out as she passed to toss into one Abrahm Kantor's apartment a short-stemmed pink carnation.