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"I'ood a sailor as Dick, Miss Elton," he said "Will you trust

yourself withto depend on you"

"A truly feminine position"

"Itthe helhed

"And I aet it only by

favor, not by necessity," he retorted

"That suits ravely

"And you are not apprehensive of storue far-away?"

"Don't I's as they are that I do not want to

think of far-aways or of anything that e"

"You are satisfied with to-day?" he persisted

"Perfectly"

Ellery flushed with traitorous rejoicing that Dick was absent It was a

day of sunshine--not the ardent blaze of suht with little heat The lake was so pale as

to be hardly blue, and girdled with soft yellow, touched only here and

there with the intenser red of the rock maples Back farther froht breeze flung the S

along with those caressing wave-slaps that are the sleepiest of sounds

To sail under that sky, with Madeline leaning on her elbow near at hand,