Three Children.

The Wages of Intelligence Owen spent the greater part of the dinner hour by himself in the drawing-room making pencil sketches in his pocket-book and taking measurements.

In the evening after leaving off, instead of going straight home as usual he went round to the Free Library to see if he could find anything concerning Moorish decorative work in any of the books there.

Although it was only a small and ill-equipped institution he was rewarded by the discovery of illustrations of several examples of which he made sketches.

After about an hour spent this way, as he was proceeding homewards he observed two children--a boy and a girl--whose appearance seemed familiar.