"No, it is your home, and I am to stay with you till my brother comes." "Always, dear brother, always!" I cried, clinging to his arm. He smiled and said, "We will enjoy the present; we never will be far apart again. But come, I am eager to show you all." Turning to the left, he led me, still through the beautiful marble columns that everywhere seemed substituted for doorways, into a large, oblong room, upon whose threshold I stopped in wondering delight. The entire walls and floor of the room were still of that exquisite light gray marble, polished to the greatest luster; but over walls and floors were strewn exquisite, long-stemmed roses, of every variety and color, from the deepest crimson to the most delicate shades of pink and yellow. "Come inside," said my brother. "I do not wish to crush those perfect flowers," I answered. "Well, then, suppose we gather some of them." I stooped to take one from the floor close to my feet, when lo! I found it was imbedded in the marble. I tried another with the same astonishing result, then turning to my brother, I said: "What does it mean? You surely do not tell me that none of these are natural flowers?" He nodded his head with a pleased smile, then said: "This room has a history. Come in and sit with me here upon this window-seat, where you can see the whole room, and let me tell you about it." I did as he desired, and he continued: "One day as I was busily working upon the house, a company of young people, boys and girls, came to the door, and asked if they might enter. I gladly gave assent, and then one of them said: "'Is this house really for Mr. and Mrs. Sprague?' "'It is,' I answered. "'We used to know and love them. They are our friends, and the friends of our parents, and we want to know if we may not do something to help you make it beautiful?' "'Indeed you may,' I said, touched by the request. 'What can you do?' "We were here at the time, and looking about, one of them asked, 'May we beautify this room?' "'Undoubtedly,' I said, wondering what they would try to do.