snatch the crocheted wrap from her father's shoulders. Swathed as usual, he was sitting beside a table, reading the evening paper; but when his employer appeared in the doorway he half rose as if to come forward in greeting.
"Sit still!" the old gentleman shouted. "What do you mean? Don't you know you're weak as a cat? D'you think a man can be sick as long as you have and not be weak as a cat? What you trying to do the polite with me for?"
Adams gratefully protracted the handshake that accompanied these inquiries. "This is certainly mighty fine of you, Mr. Lamb," he said, "I guess Alice has told you how much our whole family appreciate your coming here so regularly to see how this old bag o' bones was getting along. Haven't you, Alice?"
"Yes, papa," she said; and turned to go out, but Lamb checked her.
"Stay right here. Miss Alice; I'm not even going to sit down. I know how it upsets sick folks when people outside the family come in for the first time."
"You don't upset me," Adams said. "I'll feel a lot better for getting a glimpse of you, Mr. Lamb."
The visitor's laugh was husky, but hearty and re-
