Along about suppertime they make Elmer Lonnie stay outside and watch
for his coming, and he has to say : "Hello, pa!" very loud, and romp
with him outside the gate so as to give the twins time to gather up
the colored zephyrs and things, and hide them in the lower bureau
drawer in the spare bedroom. At such a time their mother finds an
errand that takes her into the parlor so that she can see that they
do not, by any chance, look into the middle drawer in the farther
left-hand corner, under the pillow-slips.
One night, just at supper-time, Elmer Lonnie said: "Hello, pa!"
and then they heard pa whispering and Elmer Lonnie came in looking
very solemn - or trying to - and said: "Ma, Miss Waldo wants to know
if you won't please step over there a minute."
"Did she say what for? Because I'm right in the midst of getting
supper. I look for your pa any minute now, and I don't want to
keep him waiting."
"No 'm, she didn't say what for. She jist said: 'Ast yer ma won't
she please an' step over here a minute.' I wouldn't put anythin' on.
'T ain't cold. You needn't stay long, only till . . . I guess she's
in some of a hurry."
"Well, if Harriet Waldo thinks 'at I haven't anythin' better to do 'n
trot around after her at her beck an' . . . . All right, I'll come."
The twins got their slippers hid, and Mrs.
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