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Saunders spent the end of that week on his plantation in thehe dropped in at Drake's to see Dolly John Webb caed Even the clothes he earing had the same look as those he wore five years before

"She ain't here," he said "I seed 'er, with some books an' papers under 'er arm, headed for the schoolhouse just after breakfast I reckon she's got some examples to work or compositions to write They are fixin' for a' exhibition of so part o' the stuff the scholars read in public, an' you bet soood huh She is out o' sorts to-day"

"Oh, is that so?" Saunders was ?"

"She is bothered about George," Webb answered "It is first one thing and then another with her George's crop is a failure this year and he is up to his neck in debt On top o' that he wants to get et tied, and it was to coe won't be able to buy a new shirt, to say nothin' of a whole outfit The boy is awful downhearted, and so is his gal Dolly busted out an' cried last night while George was a-talkin' She says Ida will be theas it is, for they hain't got a dollar betwixt 'em"

"Well, I'll walk by the schoolhouse and see if Dolly is there," Saunders remarked "It is onat the roadside he noticed that the front door was open, and, peering in, he saw Dolly at her desk She was not at work; indeed, she see fixedly at an open , a troubled frown on her sweet face She heard Saunders's step at the door, and, seeing hihed, i one of lad you came in You always make me ashamed ofI ever saw," he declared, as he shook hands with her "I seldoht of your wonderful patience would knock theher than a kite"