Now try to-day; if you can't do anything to-day I really must get your papa to interfere.' "Crinoline had ever been an obedient child, and now, as ever, she determined to obey.

But it was a hard task for her.

In three months he would be twenty-five--in fifteen months twenty-six.
She, however, would do her best; and then, if her efforts were unavailing, she could only trust to Providence and her papa.
"With sad and anxious heart did Macassar that day take up his new silk hat, take up also his darling umbrella, and descend the sombre steps of the Episcopal Audit Office.

'Seven to one on the Lying-in,' were the last words which reached his ears as the door of his room closed behind him.

His was a dreadful position.