Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge

the upper step, Roger was stretched on the floor at one side, Helen sat beside her mother's hammock which she kept in gentle motion by an occasional movement

years of wandering is about the nicest thing that ever happened out of a fairy sto

smiled Mrs. Morton in the darkness. "They think that if o

believ

ed or disobeyed God's laws. Sometimes we are quite unconscious of disobe

voice from the floor, indica

me you walked off the e

My nose aches at th

gravitation, but the law worked in your c

onfirmed Roger, still gently rubbin

e boy who didn't know what he was going to get by

at God's laws are just as fast and as thoroughly as we can; not only the laws of nature like the law of gra

to prosper," said Ethel Brown, wi

l to his wife and unkind to his children, but he may have a genius for making money. Some people call it the law of co

ch a hard time," wondered Ethel Blue. "Her husband being killed and her having to

is no excuse'!" said her aunt, "and the same

Helen; "it doesn't seem fair to puni

now it. That seems to be the way with the higher laws; we may break them in our ignorance-but we ought not to be ignorant. We ought to try just as hard as we know how all the time to do everything as well as we can and to be as good as we can. If we never let ourselves do a mean act or think a mean thought we're bound to come to an understanding of the great laws sooner than i

e her," murmu

owers that God has given us to carry on the work of life with. If our minds are filled wi

s sensitive and imaginative and suf

ing. My work went worse than ever. It was only when Mr. Wheeler"-referring to the principal of the high school-"jollied me u

e brave and to be filled with joy because life is going on as well as it is. It is our duty to make the most of everything that

ise see that

tely crushed as she was at first. Then she saw that when she was feeling brave she could accomplish more, and succeed better in new undertakings. If she went to ask for wor

ll give it to me' air that made the men she was as

ys that she found out that the

Ethel Brown. "Why laught

r is the outward exp

e hoped he'd never hear him laugh

eal delight over something worth being delighted at-that's quite another matter. Lord Chesterfield and I are agreed in being opposed to a vulgar manner of la

" responded

raise her spirits by doing her best to laugh at something. If you hunt hard enoug

zing away as soundly

t carry him up yet, though.

. does, and she wants to help on anything the town undertakes-you know how nice she was about the school gardens-and sometimes when a day comes that seems just stupid with nothing

ing to do. The big things of life are more absorbing but very few of us encounter the big th

eals a day have to be done three hundred sixty-five times a year; whereas you hear some splendid music or come across a

eyes we may be able to do some small kindnesses oftener than 'once in a cat's age.' It's certainly tru

disclai

r strength, and strength to endure them comes. But the small matters-they come so often and t

l the time," finished Helen. "I know how it is. It

ustrate her remarks, gave a slap at a buz

best to remedy it, and she does her best not to repeat it. 'Once may be excusable ignorance,' she says, 'but twice is stupidity,' and then she tells the tale of the boy who was walking across a field and fel

he same roar

ooked down the well and saw the same boy he said disgustedly, 'Yesterday

hey all

r as she can be and I'm glad she's going to have this lovely ho

e a goo

esn't belo

o own houses, my child. You don't need

cated we wouldn't have been in Rosemont as long as we have; but I sometimes envy the pe

If your father had not been on the Pacific station when you were the Ethels' age you wouldn

ather had as much money as Aunt Louise from his father, and he

er that her inheritance from your Grandfather Morton was accumulating for many years while her family didn't k

ecause her mother had died when she was a tiny baby. Never before had she thought whether her father, who was a captain in the Army, had any money or not. Now she sa

, but I dare say he is saving it for some time

want it any more than he

ever post he is when he has a grown-up daughter," smil

hel Brown and her other cousins she had always seen the future as shared with them. The notion of leaving them was painful, but the chance of being always with her father, of being

gh," she murmured, staring almost unseeingly at her

a change so complete was something she wanted to let her thoughts linger on. She hardly noticed that Roger was gathering Dic

Ethel Brown said as she rose and picked up th

restedly. "I wish I had seen h

house and looked at the attic. She says she'll come over next week and help us abo

hen she is coming. What di

ts. She thought the irregularity was pretty. She suggested a closet for furs over t

moths don't eat them up this year," promised Roger who had stopped in the doorway to

edge about fourteen inche

hunting for something," exclaimed Helen. "That's splendid. S

there, too. You know Aunt Louise has had them put in on

t?" asked

grenade things and chemical squirt guns. They don't look very well when they're right out in sight. This way covers them up but makes them just as convenient. There

to be on the attic flo

oom is to be pink and the other blue and they're going to

ss Graham about the Club's using the

ouldn't make the sound queer, and she thought rattan furniture stained brown would be pretty, and scrim curtains-not dead white ones, but a sort of goldeny cream that would harmonize with the wood. There are lovely big cotton rugs in dull blues, that aren

the transaction will be pleased," beamed Helen, who, as president of the Club was always careful that

ington?" asked Ethel Blue dreamily,

u know s

oss the river; I wonde

Brown, and they all went in to bed as a clap