Nor, for that matter, was it young Phil's.

Phil's voice had a drowsy drawl, as if the subject of Katherine's looks had very little interest for him, as indeed it had.

I could manage most of it with Phil's help, only there is pricing the skins, the feathers, and the fish which we take in barter from the Indians.

She had been in mischief herself too often when at Phil's age not to feel sympathy with him on the score of the prank he had played that afternoon.

While the dogs were gone, she and Phil stowed into the boat all the goods which had been brought over, then they sat down to wait for the remainder of the load, and Phil's tongue began to be busy on the events of yesterday.

" One glance at Phil's face was sufficient to make Katherine decide she could do quite well without him when she got back over the second portage, and so it was arranged.

The Dunbury wiseacres who had been wont to shake their heads over Phil's youthful escapades and prophesy a bad end for such a devil-may-care youngster now patted themselves complacently on the back, as wiseacres will, and declared they had always known the boy would turn out a credit to his family and the town.

" Phil's ingenuous face clouded over.

Phil's voice was humble.

Phil's rainbow vanished almost as soon as it had appeared in the heavens.

But Phil's eyes were rather more than friendly, resting on Carlotta, and, underneath the diaphanous, exquisite white cloud of a gown that she wore, Carlotta's heart beat a little faster for what she saw in his face.

You saw Uncle Phil's wire.

But Tony saw he was immensely pleased with Phil's tribute for all that.

She recalled another incident of years later, when the coach had been obliged to put some one else in Phil's place on the team the last minute because his sprained ankle had been bothering.

Phil's voice was sober.

She isn't Uncle Phil's."

" The light went out of Phil's eyes at that, but he said nothing to this any more than he had to the preceding statement.

" Phil's heart was one gigantic ache.

There was concern and a trace of indignation in Phil's voice.

Later came violets from Dick which she put in a vase on her desk beside Uncle Phil's picture.

The quiet garden and the still old house became as well known to Ken and Felicia as to their brother, and, indeed, the Maestro might often have been seen in the living-room at Applegate Farm, listening to Kirk's proud performance on the melodeon, and eating one of Phil's cookies.

Oh, it's really a duck of a placeand Phil's a perfect wonder.

I paused incredulously: Phil's lion so often turned out to be Snug the joiner.

Phil's escape foiled.

I know of such a dear lad about my Phil's age who has felt this so sharply that he has given his happy, lucky, petted life to give himself wholly to share their squalor and unlovely livesdoing all he can, of evenings when his work is over, to amuse such as have the heart to be amused, reading to them and telling them about histories and what notanything he knows that can entertain them.