"Yes; he's a staunch believer in Tom, even yet."
She made no answer.
"I think you kind of liked that fellow," said Roscoe teasingly.
"I always said if he ever made up his mind to do a thing he'd do it."
"Well, I guess he went and done it, as my old school grammar used to say."
"I don't like to hear you speak flippantly about him."
"How about me? Suppose I should make up my mind to do a thing——"
"Here we are at the bridge already," she said.
The new Y. M. C. A. Assembly Hall presented a gay scene, and they pushed through the crowd, Roscoe opening a way for the girl to pass, greeted on both hands by his friends and former companions. It seemed as if all the young people of the town were on hand; scouts were conspicuously in evidence, and among them all Mr. Ellsworth hustled genially about attending to a hundred and one duties.