But by this time the girl was standing under the sign-board and staring up at it. Four figures were depicted thereon in gay colours—a king, a priest, a soldier, and a John Bull farmer. Around them ran this legend—
"RULE ALL, PRAY ALL, FIGHT ALL, PAY ALL."
"Do you 'appen to know, sir," she asked, coming back, "if there's a young woman employed 'ere?"
"There is," answered the artist. "I happen to know, because she won't let me paint her, although I offered ten dollars."
"That's a good sign," said Tilda.
"Oh, is it now?" he queried, staring after her as she marched boldly towards the house and was lost to sight between the willow-stems.
CHAPTER XVI.
ADVENTURES OF THE "FOUR ALLS" AND OF THE CELESTIAL CHEMIST
"'Friend Sancho,' said Don Quixote, 'this Island that I promised you can neither stir nor fly.'"—CERVANTES.
"Now what precisely did your sister mean by that?" asked the artist, withdrawing his gaze and fixing it on Arthur Miles.