"'MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON,'" she softly read from the card presented.

" "Forgive me!" pleaded MONTGOMERY.

"I'll never marry any stranger, unless he's awful richoh, as rich as anything!" "Oh, Miss POTTS!" roared MONTGOMERY, suddenly, folding-down upon one knee before her, and scratching his nose with a ring upon the hand he sought to kiss, "why will you not bestow upon me the heart so generously disdainful of everything except the most extreme wealth?

"I reckon I've betrayed your confidence, sir," said MONTGOMERY, desperately; "but you must have known, from hearsay at least, how I have felt toward this young lady ever since our first meeting, and should not have exposed me to a temptation stronger than I could bear.

MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON with FLORA on his arm, the Reverend OCTAVIUS SIMPSON escorting MAGNOLIA, Mr. DIBBLE guarding Mrs. SIMPSON, Mr. CLEW'S arm in arm with JOHN McLAUGHLIN.

"Yes, Mr. Montgomery?" "You are aware, sir, that I need only one more session to complete my course.

I am grieved and disappointed, Mr. Montgomery, that you should have put me into the painful position of having to refuse you."

"Why hast thou not sent t' medicine oop as thy master ordered?" Montgomery had become accustomed to the brutal frankness of the northern worker.

" Montgomery smiled.

Montgomery was speaking in the hard, staccato voice of a man who is holding himself in with difficulty.

And then the danger of his position came upon Montgomery, and he turned as white as his antagonist.

"I'm sorry I hit you so hard," said Montgomery, apologetically.

" Montgomery gladly made it up and handed it to the miner.

The man seemed in his rough Northern fashion to bear no grudge, and so Montgomery's fears left him.

Have you been weighed lately, Mr. Montgomery?"

"Gentlemen," said Montgomery, "I think that you will acknowledge that I have boon very patient with you.

"That's easy done, Mr. Montgomery," said the fat-voiced publican.

" Montgomery looked at them in bewilderment.

"It would be a very sporting thing of you, Mr. Montgomery, if you would come to our help when we are in such a hole.

" The adventure and the profit would either of them have attracted Montgomery.

" "Thank you; I will let you know the hour," said Montgomery; and so the committee departed jubilant upon their way.

It was true that his teacher was long past his prime, slow upon his feet, and stiff in his joints, but even so he was still a tough antagonist; but Montgomery had found at last that he could more than hold his own with him.

"You don't go to service, I observe, Mr. Montgomery" said he, coldly.

" "A glove fight, sir?" said Montgomery, guiltily.

But you will realise, Mr. Montgomery, that while there are such influences for us to counteract, it is very necessary that we should live up to our highest.