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CHAPTER I. TIIK ICEV.*COMERS. 'v

"If VCU ].I case, mum." said the voice of a tloin Svi" from somewhere round the angle of the '".oor, "No. 8 is moving in."

Two lilLie ,M ladies, who were sitting dt either side of a table, .sprang to their a- feet with ejaculations of interest and rushed the window of the sitting room. "Take care, Monica, dear," said one, shroud in herself in the lace curtain "don't, let them see us." "No. no. Bertha. We must not give tliein reason to say that their neighbors are inquisitive. But I think that we are safe if we stand like this."

The open window Jooked out upon a sloping lawn, well trimmed and pleasant, with fuzzy rosebushes and a star shaped bed of sweet william. It was ^1 bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it olf from a broad modern new metaled road. At the other side of this road were three large, detached, deep bodied villas, with peaky eves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers.

All three were equally new, but Nos. 1 and 2 were curtained and sedate, with a human sociable look to them, while No. Si, with yawning door and unkempt garden, had apparently only just received its iurniture and made itself ready for its occupants. A 4-wheeler had driven up to the gate, and it was at th:s that the old ladies, peeping out birdlike from the curtains, directed an eager and cjuestioning gaze.

The calmia:i had descended, and the passengers within were handing out the articles which they desired him to carry up to the house. He stood red faced and blinking, with his crooked arias outstretched, while a male hand, protruding from the window, kept piling up upon him a series of articles, the Right of which filled the curious old ladies with bewilderment. "My goodness me!" cried Monica, the smaller, the drier and the more wizened of the pair. "What do you call that, Bertha? It looks to me like four batter puddings." "Those are what the young men box each other with," said Bertha, with a conscious air of superior worldly knowledge. "And those?"

Two great bottle shaped pieces of yellow, shining wood had been heaped upon the cabman.

"Oh, I don't know what those are," confessed Bertha. Indian clubs had never before obtruded themselves upon her peaceful and very feminine existence.

These mysterious articles were followed, however, by others which were more within their range of comprehension—by a pair of dumbbells, a purple cricket bag, a set of golf clubs and a tennis racket.

Finally, when the cabman, all top heavy and bristling, had staggered off «p the garden path, there emerged in a very leisurely way from the cab a big, powerfully built young man. with a bull pup under one arm and a pink sporting paper in his hand. The paper he 'v crammed into the pocket of his light yellow dust coat and extended his hand as if to assist some one else from the it svehicle. To the surprise of the two old fm-*.: ladies, however, the only thing which his open palm rect veil was a violent slap, vV and tall lady bounded unassisted out ol'the cab. With a regal wave s-he mokf tione:! the young man toward the door, r' and ti"'"i with on'' hand upon her Iiip s-lie stood in careii loun.r.ug aJ.il..1 by I*- the ga.1-\ kicking her tee against the v." nil ai'd iiMliec: ly awaiiii^ tne lvlurn te'v ,. of the (iriver.

As she turned ^lov-iv "n 1 and the sunshine strucic upon her face, tlio two watchers were amazed to :--.v that, Uiis a3?^ ,v: very active and energetic lady was far m-Jki from being in her first youth, so iar that •ffefte*-: she had certainly come of a/e u.-rnm since £&*??••• she first passed that landmark hle's jounn y. Iter fi-i-ly chiM-li-d. cV:r! -ut face, with sonietniiig rcl Indian about the firm mouth and strongly marked checkbox even a iii.it ui\tanc" ra." of the friction of th i' years. 1 yet si" \.\" v. ry

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I But if her conduct and appearance had already somewhat jarred upon their limited and precise sense of the fitness of things, what Avere they to think of the next little act in this tableau vivant? •{-v The cabman, red and heavy jowled, had come bark from his labors and held out his hand for his fare.-. The lady passed

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mm a com. tiere was a moment of mumbling and gesticulating, and suddenly she had him with both hands by the red era.vat which girt his neck and was shaking him as a terrier would a rat. Right across the pavement she thrust him, and pushing him up against the wheel she banged his head three several times against the side of his own vehicle.

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(icrm-s the pn ccnwiit nltc thrust hirn. "Can I be of any use to you. aunt?'' asked the large* youth, framing hi if the open doorway. "Not the slightest." panted tne? enraged laely. "There, vera lo\." biae.igaard, that will teach you te be impertinent to a lady."

The cabman looked helplessly about lr.::i with a. bewildered, questioning gaze, as one tnwhemi alone of all men this unheard of and extraordinary thing had hap v.'n d. Then rubbing his head he mounted slejwly emto the* bo:: and elrove away with an uptetssod hand appealing to the universe. The laely smoothed elown her dress, pushed back her hair under her little felt hat and strode in through the hall door, which was closed behind her. As with a whisk her short skirto vanished into the darkness the two spectators—Miss Bertha an el Miss Monica Williams—sat lextking at each other in speechless amazement. For 50 years they had peeped through that little window and across that trim garden, but never yet had such a sight as this come to confound them. "I wish," said Monica. at last, "that we had kept the field." "I am sure I wish we had," answered her sister.

CHAPTER II. BREAKING THE ICE.

The cottage from the window of which the Misses Williams had lexked out stands, and has stood for many a year, in that pleasant suburban district, which lies be ween Norwood. Anerley and Forest Hill. Long before there had been a thought of a township there, when the metropolis was still quite a distant thing, old Mr. Williams had inhabiteel "The Brambles," as the little house was called, and had envned all the fields .about it. Six or e"Ight such cettages scattered over a redling countryside were all the houses to be found tlie re in the days when the century was young. From afar, when the breeze came- frenntlio neirth, the elull, low reiar ejf the gre»at city might be heard like the1 breaking of the tide of life, while along the he)rizen might be seen the elim curtain of smoke*, the grim spray which that tide threw up. (xraeiuallv, hewevor, as the years passed, the city had thrown emt a lemg brick feeler here ami there1, curving, extending and coalescing, until at last: the little cottages had been gripped reiunel by the'se' re'd tentacle's and had been absented to make? room fetr the modern Ailla. Fi-ld by fie.ld the estate of eslel Itfr. \v"illiains had been :ld to the speculative builder and lsael beirne rich crops of snug suburban dwellings

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urvin'j" crescents and tree lined aveinues. The lather had passed away be fore his cottage' was entirely brie'ked round, but his twe) eiaughters. to whom the preiperty had deM.'cue.ed, lived to see the: last \"esige ol country taken from them.

For years they had .dung to the one field winch faced lh"ir Avindows, and it Avas or.ly afeT mu'.h argument, and 1 ••.w-tba",'ii f" 1' -y h..d at last aHise.'Dteu liiat it should share the fate cf the- others. A broad road Avas driven through their epr.e't doniam, the quarter Avas i-e'iatm. r-'.L iir "Wilderne'ss." anettiiri" -!|uave, staring, uncompromising viila.s 1 '. iu to sj.rout up on the other j-ide. With sea-o h'-arts the- two shy litlie old mauls \va11• ]it-d their st.eaely ]irogi*ess and siK-e-ulated as te Avhat f: shlon of neighbors cliance Avemld bring into th" lit tie nook Avlrich had always been their own.

And at last they Avere all three finished. Wooden bale'e :ies and em'rhangingeaves had be.'e.'ii added to them, so that, in the language of the adA'ertise ment, there Avere vacant thre eligible Swiss built A'lllas, Avith 1(5 rooms, ne basenie'iit. e:lectric bells, hot anel c.eild wate-.r and every rnenlcrii conv«'iii!nce, ineduding a cejininon e-iiiiis lawn, to be hit at .€10(Jaye'ar or All ,/300 purchase. So tempting an ofEesr did not long re niain e»pe n. Within a few Ave eks the' e-arel had vanished from Nej. 1, anel it Avas known that Admiral Ilay Denver, Y. C., C. B., with Mrs. Hay Denver and their only son, was about to move into it. The news brought peace to the hearts of the Williams sisters. They had liveel Avith a settled conviction that some AVIUI, impossible colony, some shouting, singing family of madcaps, Avould break in upon their peace. This establishment at least was irreproachable.

A reference to "Men of the Time" showed them that Admiral Hay Denver was a most distinguished officer Avho had begun his active career at Bomarsund anel had ended it at Alexandria, having managed between these, two episodes to see as much service as any mail of his years. From the Taku forts anel the Shannon brigade to dhow harrying off Zanzibar there AV.-.S no variety of naval work A vine!

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record, Avhile the Victoria cross and the Albert medal for saA'inglife A"ouehed for it that in peace tin in Avar his courage AA-as still of the same true temper. Clearly a Aa ry eligible neighbor this, the more so sis they had been confidentially assured by the estate agent that Mr. Harold Denver, the son. Avas a most quiet young gentleman, anel that he was busy from morning to night on the Stock Exchange.

The Hay Denvers had hardly moved in before No. 2 also struck its placard, and again the ladies found that they ha el no reason to be discontented with their neighbors. Dr. Balthazar Walker was a very Avell knenvn name in the medical Avorld. Did not his qualificatieins. his memberships and the record of his Avritings fill a long half column in The Medical Directory from his first little paper on the "Gouty Diathesis" in 1859 to his exliaustiA-e treatise upon "Affections of the Ya so-Motor System" in 1884? A successful medical career which promised to end in a presidentship of a college and a baronetcy had been cut short by his sueielen inheritance of a considerable sum from a grateful patient, which had rendered him independent for life anel had enabled him to turn his attention to the? more scientific part of his profession, which had always liael a greater charm for him than its more practiced and commercial aspect. To this eiul he had given up his house in Weymouth street anel had taken this opportunity of moA"ing himself, his scientific instruments and his tAvo charming daughters (he had been a AvidOAver for some years) into the more peaceful atme.isphero of Norwooel.

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terest, which eleepened into a dire apprehonsion, the curious incidents Avliich heraleleel the coming of the UCAV tenants. They heal already learned from the agent that the family consisted of two only, Mrs. Westmacoti:, a AvidoAA*, and her nephoAv, Charles Westmacott. HOAV simple and how select it had sounded! Who could have foreseen from it these fearful potent Avhich seemed to threaten violence anel discord among the dwellers in The Wilderness? Again the two old maids cried iu heartfelt chorus that they wished they had not sold their field. "Well, at least, Monica," remarked Bertha as they sat over their teacups that afternoon, "however strange these people may be, it is our duty to be as polite to them as to the others." "Most certainly," acquiescedher sister. "Since we have called upon Mrs. Hay DenA-er and upon the Misses Walker, we must call upon this Mrs. Westmacott also." "Certainly, dear. As long as they are living upon our land I feel as.if they were in a sense our guests, and that it is our duty to welcome them." "Then we shall call tomorrow," said Bertha, Avith decision. "Yes, dear, Ave shall. But, oh, I wish it was over!"

At 4 o'clock on the next day the two maiden ladies set off upon their hospitable errand. In their stiff crackling dresses of black Milk. Avith jet bespangled jackets and little TOAVS of cylindrical gray curls drooping doAA'ii on either side of their black lwimets, they lookeel like tAvo old fashion plates which li «l Avandered off into the Avrong decaile. Half curious and half fearful, they knocked at the eloor of Ne). 3. Avhich was instantly openeel by a redheaeled page boy.

Yes, Mrs. Westmacott was at home. He ushe're.'d them into the front rejoin, furnisheel as a eirawing room, Avhere in spite of tlit fine spring Aveather a large fire Avas burning in the grate. The boy took their e-ards. and the n, as the sat eloAvn toge ther upon a. settee, he set their ner\"e's in a thrill by darting behind a curtain Aviih a shrill cry and predehng at seimethmg Avitli his foot. The bull pup Avhieai they ha.el seen upon the eiay before heated frean his hiding place ami scuttled snarling ireini the rejemi. "it wants to get at Eliza." said the youth in a contideaitial Avhisper. "Master says she Avould give him more'n he brought." li'i smiled affably at the tAvo little stiff black figures and ele-parted msearch ot Ins mistress. "What—A', hat elid ho say?" gasped 1.M.T! :la. "Soiifthirg a1.'.out a— Oh, goodness^ grae-ioi-.s! n, Bertha! Oh, mei'ciiei-.? }1(.—-"-".J (jh. help, help, he lp, h'-1

help!" The y-o sisters h.a.d bound* on to the. r."t anel stood there Avitli staring evi-s and skirts gat here-el in while, they il111 tile whole house Avitli their yells. (nis of a high Avicke-rwork basj:et whieii stood by the fire there laid risen a flat, diamond shaped head Avilh Avie-.ked iren eves. Avhie-h came lhcl:e riug iipAvanl, waying- gently irom siile to sieie. uutii a loot or metre of gloss)', scaly lu-ck was A'l.sibh'. Slenvly the vicious heaei trine floating up, Avliilej a.f. every osci.latum e„ ire.-sh burst of shrieks came from the setter*. "What in the name of mischief!" cneel a A'eiice, and there Avas tlu mistress ot the liouse' standing in the eloorway. Her gaze at first had merely taken in the f'ac.t that two strangers Avere standing screaming upon her re'd plush seii'a. A glance at the fire.'place, hejAve ver, shenved heir the cause of the te rre»r, anel she burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "Charley," she shouted, "here's Eliza misbehaving again." "I'll setlh' her," ansAvereel a maseniline A'eiice, and the yemng man elasheel into the reiom. He hael a broAvn horse-edeith in his hand, Avhich he threAV enrer the basket, making it fast with a piece of twine seas to effectually imprison its inmate, while his aunt ran across to reassure her visitors. "It is only a reick snake," she explained. "Oh, Bertha!" "Oh, Monica!" gaspod the poor exhausted gentlewomen.

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