Mrs.Elwood was sighing fond remembrance of her only this morning.

Really, Elfreda, I wonder if, ever again, there will be a class quite like 19-- ?" "Never," declared Elfreda with quick loyalty, then, glancing up at the mission clock on the wall, she exclaimed: "I wonder why Mrs.Gray doesn't come! Let's go out on the veranda and watch for her." The two young women strolled out onto the veranda just in time to see an automobile drive up to the house containing two persons.

One of them was Mrs.Gray, the other, to whom she was talking animatedly, was a broad-shouldered young man, whose gray eyes shone with pleasure as he caught sight of Grace.
"Why, Tom!" she called in astonishment.

"Where did you come from?
I thought you were away up in Maine." She hurried down the steps, her hands extended.
The young man caught them in his and held them fast.

"So I was," he answered, his eyes searching hers, "but my work there is done for the present.