She came to an abrupt stop and struck her hands together despairingly, and spoke aloud.
"What shall I do! What shall I do!" "Ma'am ?" asked a surprised voice, just behind her.
She wheeled quickly about, to behold a shock-headed urchin of ten in the path near the little clearing.

He was ragged, tanned, dusty, neither shoes nor coat trammelling his independence; and he had evidently entered the garden through the gap in the hedge.
"I thought you spoke to me ?" he said, inquiringly.
"I didn't see you," she returned.

"What is it ?" "You Miss Carewe ?" he asked; but before she could answer he said, reassuringly, "Why, of course you are! I remember you perfect, now I git the light on you, so to speak.

Don't you remember me ?" "No, I don't think I do." "Lord!" he responded, wonderingly.

"I was one of the boys with you on them boxes the night of your pa's fire!" Mingled with the surprise in his tone was a respectful unction which intimated how greatly he honored her father for having been the owner of so satisfactory a conflagration.
"Were you?
Perhaps I'll remember you if you give me time." But at this point the youth recalled the fact that he had an errand to discharge, and, assuming an expression of businesslike haste too pressing to permit farther parley, sought in his pocket and produced a sealed envelope, with which he advanced upon her.
"Here.