"Oh, we've decided! We've rented our house and we intend to spend the summer in Switzerland and the Tyrol," answered Mrs. Danielson. "What are you going to do, Mrs. Christy?" "Jack and I expect to take an automobile trip through England and Scotland--if he can get away," returned Mrs. Christy, "and by the way, what do you all do with your houses through the summer months? That is bothering me now! Do you leave your servants in them all summer?" "Oh, no," exclaimed Mrs. Danielson hastily, "we have had such frightful experiences doing that! One summer we had fine servants and we wanted to hold on to them so we kept them in the house all the time we were gone and we hadn't been back any time at all before they left in a body! So pleasant to feel you'd only been giving a house-party for them!" she concluded sarcastically. "Why my dear, our servants had a dance in our house!" put in Mrs. Norman. "I always put a care-taker in ours," said Miss Thayer. "Don't have a care-taker!" burst out Mrs. Cecil Jerome. "While our care-taker was living in the basement, burglars got through our scuttle and robbed all the upper part of the house!" "You make a great mistake," said Mrs. Danielson. "Don't you know about the Holmes Company? They have wired our house every year since that experience with our servants--why, it's ten years now! It is the only way to leave your house during the summer." I heard the other day, said a handsome woman joining the group, "that, that company had opened offices of their own all through the city this year and they will not hereafter connect houses with the District Telegraph offices, so you see their service is going to be a hundred per cent. better than it has ever been before." "You better wire your house, Mrs. Christy," said Mrs. Danielson, "you'll feel perfectly safe then. An awfully funny thing happened to me when ours was first done! Mr. Danielson neglected to have my signature on the coupon and I came up from Newport and couldn't get into my own house! I was raging at the time, but when I thought it over afterward it convinced me how secure the protection is." "Was it really true that your care-taker took boarders in your house while you were in Europe a few years ago," asked Mrs. Norman, turning to a newcomer who had joined them. "Yes, we had it wired the minute we found it out. It put a stop to that sort of thing!" returned the woman emphatically. "I never heard of such things!" gasped Mrs. Christy. "I didn't know they would dare!" "Dare? They dare anything!" snapped a tall girl in green. "Well, I shall have it wired the instant we go," said Mrs. Christy conclusively. "I did not know there was any company who did that sort of thing. I am perfectly relieved to solve the problem!" She went on into the drawing-room and the groups of guests at the tables gradually broke up and followed making their adieux. The instant Mrs. Reginald Norman reached home she called Mrs. Danielson up on the telephone.