"Has your 'unknown admirer' been asking you to dine with him?" inquired Mrs. Anderson, sharply.
"My 'unknown admirer'?" repeated Martha, blankly. "Whom do you mean?"
"The one who sent you these flowers," cried Aunt Jane, bringing the box to Martha, who gazed in surprise at the splendid roses.
"More flowers, and from a man I have never spoken to," exclaimed Martha, reading the note.
At this moment Lizzie opened the door from the hall and entered.
"If you please, ma'am, that messenger boy is here again," she said. "He wants to see Miss Farnum herself."
"It's the boy who brought the flowers," explained Aunt Jane. "He has a note he won't give to any one but you."
"How exciting," cried Martha. "Do have him in."
Messenger No. 109 winked his eye maliciously at Mrs. Anderson, and tipped his cap respectfully to Martha, whom, from the directions regarding his note, he evidently deemed a person of some importance. Martha opened the envelope, and a yellow-backed bill fluttered to the floor. Mrs. Anderson gasped, Lizzie stared, and the messenger boy politely picked it up and returned it to Martha. It was a hundred-dollar bill.
"Is dere any answer, lady?" inquired 109 stolidly.