A Fool There Was

of Jimmy Blair. They grew in stature, and in intellect. They grew through the grades of

brother that had turned out to be a sister, and who had been named Elinor, stayed at home with the widow of Jimm

d in a deep phalanx of great, green trees at the head of a great, green lawn. It was not a big house, of pretension, of arrogant wealth, of many servants-of closely-shaven shrubbery and woodeny land

r a quarter of a mile from the end of his pier. He lived on it part of the time, with Mrs. Thomas Cathcart Blake, and their guests; part of the time he lived on the shore, in the house that he had built. Dr. DeLancey once asked him if he ever moved the yacht from its moorings, and wanted to bet that

that seldom sailed; although Dr. DeLancey begged them to rechristen it "The Dock," or "The Stake Boat," or something of the sort, wh

hich she didn't want to miss. You can know, how popular and attractive and altogether charming she was when I tell you that she was like her mother at her age; and all New York

in. A year, with a girl of eighteen, means vast changes; and when that year has been spent at boarding school, it means changes yet more vast, infinitely. Thus, it was that Jack Schuyler and Tom Blake stood, jaws ag

ings to say, and rejecting each because it didn't seem to be good enough. Finally Tom Blake ventured a remark

on the other seat, forgot himself, and voiced, in the moment of his

e grown pretty, Kat

shed and almost carromed the trap against a telegraph pole. Wh

r. DeLancey. Dr. DeLancey was not bashful. He pinche

e! If you two boys let any rank outsider take her out of the family, you'll have me to reckon with. Yes, by Jo

ustr