It's no real merit to be in correspondence with an earl, and yet after all, that boy makes me feel as if there was." The cablegram was actually gone home! the thought of it gave him an immense uplift.

He walked with a lighter tread.

His heart was full of happiness.

He threw aside all hesitances and confessed to himself that he was glad through and through that he was going to give up this experiment and go back to his home again.

His eagerness to get his father's answer began to grow, now, and it grew with marvelous celerity, after it began.