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But she protested that she had only coht hoet away,--oh!" he broke off excitedly--"here he

is!" Dr Lavendar's eagerness at the sight of the little boy who caarden path, his hurry to open the front door and bring

hi and proud

and a little tremulous, would have touched her, if she had noticed

him But she did not notice him,--the child absorbed her She could

not leave hi off her

bonnet and saying she would stay to tea

"David," said Dr Lavendar, "I've got a bone in et o up-stairs like a crocodile?" said David

"Certainly, if it affords you the slightest personal satisfaction,"

Dr Lavendar told him; and while the little boy crawled laboriously on

his stomach all the way up-stairs, Dr Lavendar talked about hiht the child had been homesick just at first; he had

ave hiht that told a story--" At

thata handkerchief between his teeth,

came rapidly, head fore hand;--"Mustn't talk about hi that was new to Helena; it was

dull, of course;--how very dull Lloyd would have found it! A childlike

oldquestions with serious simplicity of a little boy who