of specimens. A delightful afternoon had followed, he in a hammock, she on a low seat beside him, arranging, class

le you look! Are

ed lightly. "We had a pretty sti

particular crab. Isn't he a pretty fellow?" and she lifted the box that her father mi

it and you sta

can make them as well as I do. I pro

e one,-only don't s

n oppressively sultry; no breath of wind stirred the heavily drooping leaves, no sound except the rhythmic splash of the fountain

Forever!

or little lass!" he murmured. Then he smiled as she came towards him, quaffed off the bev

you, dearest?" s

ll read me some of Lall

t making a Mecc

ked the dai

. I wish we did not have to go on and on, dearest!" she exc

venty years of life is generally enough for the majority. You would not like to

is upon the pillow. "I shoul

rowls of distant thunder were heard at interva

t which she leaned. On the step below her a young man sat. He too was clad in white and the rich crimson of the silken scarf which he wore about his waist enhanced his Spanish beau

Geoff? I saw a troop ship signaled thi

e plantation with my father all day,

ime for it!" and Mr

as the most sublime indifference for the thermometer of any one I ever had the honor of knowing. But the ship only br

ewson have to go? He has been on this

or Malta. He told me last night he was

" Evadne exclaimed, aghast. "Why, dea

progression,

we just live on in the old happy way? You will be going next, Ge

ilence and again Lenox Hildret

Forever!

nly the unfortunate people under military rule who prove unreliable. Let me

adne passed him like a flash of light and flew to her father's side. He was leaning heavily agains

that Barbadoes' best physicians were unremitting in their efforts to stop the hemorrhage; while she stood like a statue beside her father's bed. She was absolutely still. When

,-the slightest shock is sure to." After that,

hemorrhage returned at intervals. Just as the rose-tinted dawn looked shyly through the windows, her

everything a sham. I know better now. Make it the bus

Danvers came swiftly forward, but Lenox Hildr

*

untain still sparkled in the sunshine and the birds sang, but for her the foundations of lif

ffrey Chittenden said at last, "you would feel b

s, out of which the merry sparkle had fa

t these things are bound to happen to us all, so

said with a dreary laugh. "I wis

e steady gaze of the mournful grey eyes. He was not accustomed to dealing with such wordless grie

at, in the event of his death, he wished you to make yo

ne b

me, I feel confident. Judge Hildreth holds a position of great trust in the chu

s were lifte

nd Jesus Ch

beg your pardon, my dear. The Lord sitteth upon his throne in

inted tone. "There must be some mistake. My father to

, my dear! O

d into the grey eyes. Ev

ir," she said quietly.

y had failed to bring her, at the first bre