Barbara's very young and romantic, and although she has not known him long" "She has known him for about two weeks," Cartwright rejoined.

However, the trouble is, Barbara's as wild as a hawk, though I don't know where she got her wildness.

Barbara's glance got fixed, and Cartwright knew he had blundered.

" He was satisfied by Barbara's frank laugh.

Barbara's carelessness gave her charm.

Maru was confident that Leith was heading for this particular point at the moment that Barbara's bribe caused the Raretongan to desert, and it was reasonable to think that the ruffian had retired to some hiding place to nurse his wound and decide upon the fate of the Professor and his two daughters.

Barbara's smile, wanting a child.

The child of Aunt Barbara's half-sister, she inherited none of the so-called Bigelow estate which had come to the two daughters, Aunt Barbara and Aunt Sophia, from their mother's family.

In blissful ignorance of all that was meditated against her, Ethelyn saw her piano taken away from the sitting room, where it would never stand again, and saw the tears which rolled down Aunt Barbara's faded cheeks as she, too, watched its going, and tried to fill up the vacancy it left by moving a chair and a table and a footstool into the gap.

Ethelyn had never taken charge of her own room, for at Aunt Barbara's Betty had esteemed it a privilege to wait upon her young mistress, while Aunt Van Buren would have been horror-stricken at the idea of any one of her guests making their own bed.

Between Mrs. Markham and Ethelyn there was from the first a mutual feeling of antagonism, and it was in no degree lessened by Aunt Barbara's letter, which Mrs. Markham read three times on Sunday, and then on Monday very foolishly talked it up with Eunice, whom she treated with a degree of familiarity wholly unaccountable to Ethelyn.

I want it to seem as if she were here," and Aunt Barbara's chin quivered, and her eyes grew moist, as her fat, creasy hands smoothed and patted the plump pillows, and tucked in the white spread, and picked up a feather, and moved a chair, and shut the blinds, and dropped the curtains, and then she went softly out and shut the door behind her.

That is, did nobody help you hunt?" was Ethelyn's next query; and Richard would have read much hope for him in the eagerness of the eyes, which waited for Aunt Barbara's answer, and which dropped so shyly upon the carpet when Aunt Barbara said, "Alone, child?

" "Yes, yes," and Ethie's foot beat the carpet thoughtfully, while her eyes were cast-down, and the great tears gathered slowly in the long-fringed lids, then they fell in perfect showers, and laying her head in Aunt Barbara's lap she sobbed piteously.

Harry Goldthwaite put a new idea into Barbara's head.

" "We shall miss you very much," said Mrs. Holabird, covering Barbara's nonsense.

" There was a shout at Barbara's "poem.

" "She would like you better still if you were to lose all your money, and one of your legs, and be marked by the small-pox," I say, thoughtfully; "to be despised, and out at elbows, and down in the world, is the sure way to Barbara's heart.

Why now?when there are so much stronger reasons for silencewhen to speak would be to knock to atoms the newly-built edifice of Barbara's happinessto rake up the old and nearly dead ashes of Frank's frustrated, and for aught I know, sincerely repented sin?

he cries, his face growing even more ash-white than it was before, and his voice quivering with a passionate anger; "not for Barbara's sake?" I shudder.

Under the influence of Barbara's gentle talk, his features have reassumed almost serenity.

replies Barbara's voice, softly cheerful.

I have thrown myself on Barbara's little white bed, and am clasping her pillow in my empty arms.

Hefrom whose clasp Barbara's dead hand was freed!

Never, never shall I reach Barbara's clear child-faith; Barbara, to whom God was as real and certain as I; never shall I attain to the steady confidence of Roger.