Lily Rose by taking advantage of a bargain sale on suits saved enough

from her trousseau to curtain the windows in dainty blue and white

muslin.

Derry then diverted the appropriation for an ingrain carpet to an

expenditure for shellac and paint with which he showed Amarilly how to

do the floors. Some cheap but pretty rugs were selected in place of the

carpet.

At last the Annex was ready for painting. Lily Rose wistfully stated

that she had always longed to live in a white house, so despite the fact

that the Jenkins house proper was a sombre red, the new part was painted

white.

"'Twill liven the place up," Amarilly consoled herself, while Colette

breathed a sigh of relief that the Annex was not to be entirely

conventional.

At Amarilly's suggestion, the woodwork was also painted white.

"Hard to keep clean," warned Amarilly, divided in her trend of

practicality and her loyalty to St. John's favorite color. White won.

The moment the paint was dry and the Annex announced "done," the Boarder

took Lily Rose to view their prospective domicile. They were

unaccompanied by any of the family, but it took the combined efforts of

Mrs. Jenkins, Amarilly, and Flamingus, whose recent change in voice and

elongation of trousers gave him an air of authority, to prevent a

stampede by the younger members.

Lily Rose returned wet-eyed, sweetly smiling, and tremulous of voice,

but the Boarder stood erect, proud in his possessions.

Colette vetoed the plan for Amarilly to settle in the absence of the

groom and bride.

"If you have it all furnished beforehand," she argued, "there will be

just so much more room to entertain in on the night of the wedding."

And then Lily Rose confessed that "she'd love to be 'to hum' in her own

place."

"But they won't be furnished," argued Amarilly.

"Oh, yes, they will," assured Colette. "It's etiquette--" she paused to

note Amarilly writing the word down in a little book she carried--"for

people to send their presents before they come, and you can settle as

fast as they come in."

The wedding gifts all arrived the day before the wedding. The base-

burner, though not needed for some months, was set up, because the

Boarder said he would not feel at home until he could put his feet on

his own hearth. John Meredith sent an oaken library table and an

easy-chair. Derry's offering was in the shape of a beautiful picture

and a vase for the table.




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