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Isobel renewed her voyage somewhat chastened in spirit But her

volatile nature soon survived the shocks it had received By the time

the Kansas put her ashore at Tilbury, to be clasped in the arms of a

tin of glory

she had mapped out in London and Paris

And she was a success, too Her father's victory over the copper ring,

her own adventures, which lost nothing in the telling, and her

vivacious self-confidence, carried her into society with a whirl

Recently, her engagement to an impecunious peer was announced

Captain Courtenay, RN, and his wife are not such distinguished

personages, but their ro They were married quietly a week after the Kansas reached

London There was some war scare in full blast at the ned to read the newspapers thought it was

a pity that a smart sailor should not risk his life for his country

rather than in behalf of base commerce So he looked up Courtenay's

record, and found that it was excellent, the young lieutenant's reason

for resigning his co his

mother when her estate ept away by a bank failure The Sea Lords

made him a first-rate offer of reinstateher rank, without any loss of seniority, and they went about the

business with such dignified leisure that Dr Christobal had tih men whom he could trust, that Elsie's small estate in