CHAPTER X.

RED KNEE CAPS. Helen arrived at the shop to find that Nan had bought the flowers and arranged them in bowls and placed them on the little tea tables. She had dusted, too, and gotten the rooms beautifully in order. Now Nan was curled up in a little broad, low, old-fashioned chair, reading from her beloved book, “The Home Book of Verse,” that Douglas had insisted upon her buying after they had sold the sideboard to the rich Loudon County woman. Whenever there was a lull in the business of the day, Nan seized the book…