If they don't, I believe I'll try to
bribe Tom when he comes to see to the fire."
It was not long before he heard Tom's step on the stairs, then his knock
on the door.
"Come in," he answered, in cheerful tones; then, as he caught sight of a
waiter full of good things, such as his sisters were supping upon,
"Hurrah! Tom, you're a brick! But who sent it?"
"Miss Wilet; and she says if dars not nuff ob it to satisfy yo' appetite,
you's to ring for mo'."
"All right; tell Mamma Vi I'm much obliged," said Max.
"Very good prison fare," he added to himself, as he fell to work, Tom
having withdrawn, "I've good reason to be fond of Mamma Vi, and as she's
fond of her grandfather, I s'pose I'll have to forgive him for her sake,"
he concluded, quite restored to good humor, and laughing gleefully at his
own jest.
"O Lulu," exclaimed Gracie, struck with a sudden recollection, and laying
down the spoon with which she was eating her oysters, "you know I was to
stay alone. You oughtn't to have come in here."
"Pooh! your time was up a good while ago," returned Lulu, "and Mamma Vi
must have expected me to come in here to eat supper along with you.
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