Williams. "That accounts for the barber. What
else?"
"That's all," Sam said, swallowing. "Then he got mad and went
home."
Mr. Williams walked to the door, and sternly motioned to the
culprit to precede him through it. But just before the pair
passed from her sight, Mrs. Williams gave way to an
uncontrollable impulse.
"Sam," she asked, "what does 'In-Or-In' stand for?"
The unfortunate boy had begun to sniffle.
"It--it means--Innapenent Order of Infadelaty," he moaned--and
plodded onward to his doom.
Not his alone: at that very moment Master Roderick Magsworth
Bitts, Junior, was suffering also, consequent upon telephoning on
the part of Mrs. Bassett, though Roderick's punishment was
administered less on the ground of Georgie's troubles and more on
that of Roddy's having affiliated with an order consisting so
largely of Herman and Verman. As for Maurice Levy, he was no whit
less unhappy. He fared as ill.
Simultaneously, two ex-members of the In-Or-In were finding their
lot fortunate. Something had prompted them to linger in the alley
in the vicinity of the shack, and it was to this fated edifice
that Mr.
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