“I want to know everything Genesis told you,” said her mother, “and I want you to tell it as quickly as you can.” “Well, I _am_ tellin’ it, mamma!” Jane protested. “I’m just _beginning_ to tell it. I can’t tell it unless there’s a beginning, can I? How could there be _anything_ unless you had to begin it, mamma?” “Try your best to go on, Jane!” “Yes’m. Well, Genesis says--Mamma!” Jane interrupted herself with a little outcry. “Oh! I bet _that’s_ what he had those two market baskets for! Yes, sir! That’s just what he did! An’ then he needed the rest o’ the money and you an’ papa wouldn’t give him any, and so he began countin’ shingles to-day ’cause to-night’s the night of the party an’ he just _hass_ to have it!” Mrs. Baxter, who had risen to her feet, recalled the episode of the baskets and sank into a chair. “How did Genesis know Willie wanted forty dollars, and if Willie’s pawned something how did Genesis know _that_? Did Willie tell Gen--” “Oh, no, mamma, Willie didn’t want forty dollars--only fourteen!” “But he couldn’t get even the cheapest ready-made dress-suit for fourteen dollars.” “Mamma, you’re gettin’ it all mixed up!” Jane cried. “Listen, mamma! Genesis knows all about a second-hand store over on the avynoo; an’ it keeps ’most everything, an’ Genesis says it’s the nicest store! It keeps waiter suits all the way up to nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents. Well, an’ Genesis wants to get one of those suits, so he goes in there all the time an’ talks to the man an’ bargains an’ bargains with him, ’cause Genesis says this man is the bargainest man in the wide worl’, mamma! That’s what Genesis says. Well, an’ so this man’s name is One-eye Beljus, mamma. That’s his name, an’ Genesis says so. Well, an’ so this man that Genesis told me about that keeps the store--I mean One-eye Beljus, mamma--well, One-eye Beljus had Willie’s name written down in a book, an’ he knew Genesis worked for fam’lies that have boys like Willie in ’em, an’ this morning One-eye Beljus showed Genesis Willie’s name written down in his book, an’ One-eye Beljus asked Genesis if he knew anybody by that name an’ all about him. Well, an’ so at first Genesis pretended he was tryin’ to remember, because he wanted to find out what Willie went there for. Genesis didn’t tell any stories, mamma; he just pretended he couldn’t remember, an’ so, well, One-eye Beljus kept talkin’ an’ pretty soon Genesis found out all about it. One-eye Beljus said Willie came in there and tried on the coat of one of those waiter suits--” “Oh, no!” gasped Mrs. Baxter.