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“I hope nothing goes wrong with the water pipes when we have company,” remarked Agnes. “It would be very inconvenient.”

“Yes, it would. We’ll have the plumber come over to make sure there isn’t a leak. Those men didn’t look any too intelligent. I wonder how they ever got their job.”

It was later in the afternoon, when Neale O’Neil came to the house to announce that the car was now in running order again, that Agnes called to him:

“Neale, did you hear anything about a break in the street water main while you were down town?”

“No, I didn’t,” he answered. “What is it, a joke? If it is I’ll bite. Go on, what’s the answer?”

“It isn’t a joke,” said Ruth, and she detailed the visit of the two strange men.

“Hum,” mused Neale. “That’s rather odd. There hasn’t been any leak up this way or the street gang would have been out. I’ll take a look down cellar myself.”

He did, with the result that he came up shaking his head.

“What’s the matter?” inquired Ruth.

“There isn’t a sign of a leak or a break down there,” the boy replied. “Those men must have gotten in the wrong house. But I know one of the water commissioners and I’ll ask him about it this afternoon. I have to go to the town hall to see about something else.”