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They drifted into other topics and all too soon they reached Wilht stayed with Ruththe days that followed, and crept into her letters when she wrote to Corporal Cameron, as she did quite often in these days; and still no solution had coreat question which was so like the one of old, "What shall I do to be saved?" It caain the fact that it had originated in a talk with Cameron clashed badly in her ht had used about him So that at last she resolved to talk to her cousin, Captain La Rue, the next time he came up

"Cousin Captain," she said, "do you know a boy at your camp from Bryne Haven named John Cameron?"

"Indeed I do!" said the captain

"What kind of aman I know in every way," answered the captain promptly "If the world were ood place in which to live Do you know him?"

"A little," said Ruth evasively, with a satisfied smile on her lips "His ht, of course, but uess I'll have to tell her what you said It will please her He used to be in school with o I haven't seen much of him since"

"Well, all I have to say is, iet the chance He's worth ten to one of your society youths that loll around here almost every time I come"

"Now, Cousin Captain!" chided Ruth But she went off s and she kept all his words in her heart