From her watch tower at the kitchen window, Aunt Kate espied the sorrowing ones. "My sakes alive, what has got into those girls?" she exclaimed. "They must be hankering for a funeral." Hastening forth, she planted herself before them and viewed the weepers with stern eyes. "What is all of this crying about?" she demanded. They told her, abating no jot or tittle of gloom. "Was Charles Augustus unhappy yesterday?" "No," they admitted. "Well then," Aunt Kate's voice rang forcefully, "what's the use of crying over happiness? Tears are to wash sorrows away." Her final remark pointed her thoughts in a practical direction. "You two can wash the surrey as well as for me to pay Tom fifty cents to do it. You can use some of those tears around here if you get tired of pumping water." So the grief stricken arrayed themselves in bathing suits and tugged the surrey into the sun. They hitched the hose to the force pump and labored diligently amidst floods of conversation and torrents of water. They polished and, inadvertently or with malice aforethought, turned water upon one another until peals of laughter echoed into the kitchen. A complacent Aunt Kate gave but little heed to them until they presented themselves before her, much bedrabbled but in an exceedingly cheerful frame of mind. She gazed over her glasses at them and said, "Mercy sakes, I told you girls to wash the surrey not yourselves. Get off those wet clothes before you catch your death of cold." As they disappeared towards the stairs she called after them, "You girls were bound to have a moist morning. Now I hope that you are satisfied." Days passed which Aunt Kate, in her wisdom, saw were busy ones. At last an answer came to Virginia's letter to Mrs. Henderson. Hennie had a habit of accomplishing the things which she undertook and her response was most satisfactory. She had arranged for the operation upon Charles Augustus at the New York hospital. A place had been found for Mrs. Curtis to stay and tickets had been placed at the Old Rock station for her and her son. Sufficient funds had been raised to cover everything but the operating fee. But as soon as the case came to the attention of the surgeon, he had suggested that, as the matter of age was a very important factor in the ultimate success of his efforts, the operation be performed at once. He was quite willing to await the result of Mrs. Henderson's further exertions for the payment of his bill. A very happy and delighted Virginia cried the good news aloud to Aunt Kate and Helen. "Right after lunch we will go and see Mrs. Curtis and Charles Augustus and tell them the good news," she planned. "Isn't Hennie perfectly splendid?"