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"Why is he against it?"

"He says they will be holding a ht to try and find out what Old Nicholas is up to, and that if he doesn't give them the sanation hts And I'll pledge youabout However, Nicholas is close with his ood happen to lose a bit Blood-letting is healthy for the body, and perhaps gold-letting may help the soul more than we think for"

This news sti, and when she also stood beside the two cradles, and the little Nicholas opened his big blue eyes and began to "bawl for what he wanted," a certain idea took fast hold of her, and she nursed it silently for the nextTyrrel at the same time It was near October, however, before she found the proper opportunity for speaking There had been a long letter froain after a wonderful trip over the Northern Pacific road He wrote with enthusias cities they had visited on their return fronitude and stir of traffic and wrestling humanity see with business His own plans, the plans of others, the jar of politics, the thrill of music and the drama--all the multitudinous vitality that crowded the streets and filled the air, even to the roofs of the twenty-story buildings, contributed to the potent exhilaration of the letter

"Great George!" exclai! I ere back in Ao? It is now the twenty-eighth of September"

"Are you very weary of Rawdon Court"'

"Yes If aa pleasant time, why Rawdon Court would be a heaven to hi with his life, he would be most unhappy here"

"And you want to do so?"

"You would not have loved a man who did not want TO DO We have been here four months Think of it! If I take four months out of every year for twenty years, I shall lose, with travel, about seven years of s to be dropped with them may be of incalculable value"