HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
was an object of intense interest, and they 
found more to notice and study than they 
had ever dreamed possible. At the same 
time they enjoyed the beauty and inspira¬ 
tion of it all more than ever before. 
On the way back they stopped at Squire 
Hunderson’s. After the usual greeting, 
and a remark or two about the weather— 
over which he shook his massive head dis- 
pairingly—he opened fire on Mantell. 
“Huh! nice sort of a reputation you’ll 
get,” he boomed, in his genial bass voice 
—“workin’ your men on Sunday like that.” 
“Working my men on Sunday?” in¬ 
quired Mr. Mantell wonderingly. 
“Yes,” said the Squire, “workin’ ’em 
like galley-slaves. On the way to church 
we saw ’em workin’ at that hothouse of 
yours, and on the way back they were still 
at it, hammer and tongs.” 
And sure enough when Mantell got 
back to the house. Raffles and Robert, in 
their old clothes, daubed up with liquid 
putty, and the latter with a red-streaked 
rag around one finger, were putting in 
the fourteenth row of glass. Robert was 
armed with a rubber putty bulb and was 
working just ahead of Raffles, who laid 
the glass, and between them they made 
rapid progress. 
“It’s quite scandalous,” said Mrs. Man¬ 
tell, but they kept on until dinner was 
ready. And after a hasty meal, it must be 
confessed that Mr. Mantell quietly slid out 
the side door, to avoid a possible argument, 
and gave such enthusiastic assistance to 
his over-zealous helpers that nightfall saw 
the last pane of the roof in place. Man¬ 
tell even stole out in the moonlight to ad¬ 
mire it before going to bed. 
“Henry,” Mrs. Mantell said to him, 
“you haven’t been as crazy about any¬ 
thing since you organized your first com¬ 
pany !” 
“I know it, dear,” he replied, adminis¬ 
tering the light little kiss upon her fore¬ 
head that he always gave her when he was 
particularly pleased with things. “Why 
shouldn’t I be? I’m having more fun 
right now than I’ve ever had in my life, I 
think. And think of the advantage this is 
going to give us over our hide-bound com¬ 
petitors 1 We’ll show ’em yet.” 
It proved to be a very good thing that 
they had taken advantage of Sunday’s 
good weather. Monday was bright, but 
colder and the work on the ends of the 
house did not go so fast. However, as 
Robert had insisted on staying home from 
school, and as they worked hard, the first 
whirling snowflakes of the afternoon 
found them putting in the last of the 
glass. And the following morning, with 
a four-inch blanket of light snow piled on 
hill and forest, the little spot of real bare 
ground 25 x 12 feet, inside the greenhouse, 
looked most encouraging. They scraped 
the snow off the roof, and began at once 
digging out a square near the door for 
the second-hand coal stove which was to 
serve as their boiler. Raffles had two short 
pieces of pipe so twisted and coiled 
that he was able to get several feet of it 
inside the top of the fire box, and two 
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