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"It is alet coed and I proed by his wife, was not to be placated

"Our week is up Monday, and we are leaving"

Miss Mattie Gaskett, encouraged by the conversation to which she had listened, declared with asperity: "There has been fuzz under my bed for exactly one week, Mr Cone, and I have not called theit would remain there I have no reason to believe that it will be removed this summer I am sure it is not necessary to tell you that such filth is unsanitary I have decided that you can make out my bill at your earliest convenience"

"But, Miss Gaskett----"

She ignored the protesting hand which Mr Cone, panic-stricken, extended, and made way for afrom Balti-chair squeaked, and since no attention had been paid to her coements

It was useless for Mr Cone to explain that with the plues and the furniture repairers behind with their work, it had been impossible to attend immediately to these ed the of the uests in front of the desk who stood and glowered at him, and his conciliatory attitude, his obsequiousness, only added to it

If nothing else had happened to strain Mr Cone's self-control further, he and his guests , but the fatal hich he had feared in his forebodings came from Mrs J Harry Stott, whobefore her a s-needle She walked to the desk and presented it for Mr Cone's consideration It was a e that it was such did not lessen the horror hich the guests regarded it

Aghast, speechless, Mr Cone, one of whose proudest boasts had been of the hotel's cleanliness, could not have been more shocked if he had learned that he was a leper

There were shudders, ejaculations, and a general determination to leave even sooner than anticipated

"Where did you find it?" Mr Cone finallyon my pillow!" replied Mrs Stott, dramatically "And I think there are others! If you will see that ed to you"