Joe Milgrave is a splendid fellow and Mr.Pryor fairly beamed on him until the war broke out and I know Mr.Pryor would forgive Miranda very quickly, once it was over and he wanted his housekeeper back.

But Miranda shook her silvery head dolefully.
"'Joe wants me to but I can't.

Mother's last words to me, as she lay on her dying-bed, were, "Never, never run away, Miranda," and I promised.' "Miranda's mother died two years ago, and it seems, according to Miranda, that her mother and father actually ran away to be married themselves.

To picture Whiskers-on-the-moon as the hero of an elopement is beyond my power.

But such was the case and Mrs.Pryor at least lived to repent it.