Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley

"Oh yes it is! Far, far different, Amarilly. It has a history."

"Yes, I guess it has," laughed Amarilly, "It's been goin' some these

last two months!"

"Why, what do you mean, Amarilly? and I forgot in my excitement to ask

how it helped you. But first tell me. You know there is a pocket in it?"

"Yes, Miss King."

"Have you noticed anything in the pocket?"

"Never looked onct. But then if thar was 'twould hev come out in the

wash. It's been did up heaps of times. You see, rentin' it out so

much--"

"Renting it out!"

Amarilly gave a graphic account of the adventures of the errant garment

to date. Meanwhile Colette's countenance underwent kaleidoscopic

changes.

"Amarilly," she asked faintly, "have you the addresses of all those

people to whom you rented it?"

"Yes; I keep books now, and I put it down in my day ledger the way the

Boarder showed me."

"There was something--of mine--in--that pocket. Will you ask your mother

to look for it, and hunt the house over for it?"

Amarilly, greatly distressed at the loss, promised faithfully to do so.