ILLUSTRATIONS[ Elsie . . . repeated the performance in a manner that was only the morecaptivating . . . . . . Frontispiece ][ "Well, I mustn't stay here and keep you from 'redding' up your kitchen,as you call it" ][ "You and I will do better with checks, Elsie, though Aunt Milly will have noneof them," he remarked ][ "Well, Elsie, we know the whole story now" ]