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The next two days were busy ones There were a great s to be done, and Julia Cloud would have worked herself out, had not the children interfered and carried her off for a ride every little while The intervening Sabbath was spent at Ellen Robinson's The handso very disagreeable In fact, at the last, when she began to realize that Julia was really going away, and would not be down at the old house any leam of affection for her, and quite worried poor Julia with thinking that perhaps, after all, she ought not to go away so far from her only sister When Ellen sat down on the bare stairs in the old hall Monday , Julia had a swift vision of her little sister years ago sitting on that sa her; and she put her arms around Ellen, and kissed her for the first time inhanded over the keys to the new tenant, and Julia Cloud leaned back on the luxurious cushions and laughed Not from mirth, for there were tears in her eyes; and not from nervousness, for she was never subject to hysteria; but just fro out in the world at last to see things and live a life of her own

The two young people felt it, and laughed with her, until the blackbirds, swirling in a rustling chorus overhead on their way south, see in, and a little squirrel whisked across the road and sat up inquiringly on a log fraht to the city, for Mr Luddington had promised to meet them there and confer with them further about their plans But, when they reached the hotel, they found only a telegraer than he expected and that he should have to arrange to ested three colleges, either one of which he should favor, and outlined their journey to take in a stop at each He proave his own address in case they decided to remain at either the first or the second place visited

"Now," said Julia Cloud after the telegras before we go any farther I know you children don't like these old black things, and we , and I shall be ready to go on ht after lunch"