CHAPTER VI.
We skip ten years and this history finds certain changes to record.
Judge Hawkins and Col.

Sellers have made and lost two or three moderate fortunes in the meantime and are now pinched by poverty.

Sellers has two pairs of twins and four extras.

In Hawkins's family are six children of his own and two adopted ones.

From time to time, as fortune smiled, the elder children got the benefit of it, spending the lucky seasons at excellent schools in St.Louis and the unlucky ones at home in the chafing discomfort of straightened circumstances.
Neither the Hawkins children nor the world that knew them ever supposed that one of the girls was of alien blood and parentage: Such difference as existed between Laura and Emily is not uncommon in a family.