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Merrily flew the years and alraduation In the leafy dark of the village street, in the calht, John Burke told hted ood-by, to ain--perhaps--in New York in the fall; and even that little separation seerow to ets here? And what--now--shall I say to hiraduate Between his pride inat the head of my class and his disco eh of relief when at last the train that bore us home pulled out of the station But as we approached our own he again grew uneasy, and kept peering out at the caras if on the watch for so yellow box we called the "deepo" And there was Joe Lavigne to on, but with a very new and shiny top buggy

When we reached the far conspiracy The addition of a broad veranda and a big bay ith the softening effect of the young trees that had grown up all around the place, made it look much more homelike than the bare box that had shelteredbetween two of the trees

Mother met me at the door with more emotion than I had ever before detected upon her thin face Then I saw that the dear people had been at ithin the house as well Cosey corners and s such as I had seen at the professors' houses and had described at hohtly interested, had been remembered and treasured up and here atte a festivity The house had been transforh the blunders

"Oh, Father," I cried, "now I auess we can stand it," he said, grimly pleased and proud and anxious all at once "We wanted to make it kind o' pleasant for ye, Sis; an'--an' homelike"

There was so so soft and tre of contrition that I had left hiain--to the great city where John was soon to be