But something like this attitude had been expected, and Judge Rawdon was not discouraged by it; he knew that youth is capable of great and sudden changes, and that its ability to find reasonable motives for them is unlimited, so he calmly continued: "You are aware that your grandmother's name before marriage was Rachel Mostyn ?" "I have seen it a thousand times at the bottom of her sampler, father, the one that is framed and hanging in her morning room--Rachel Mostyn, November, Anno Domini, 1827." "Very well.

She married George Rawdon, and they came to New York in 1834.

They had a pretty house on the Bowling Green and lived very happily there.

I was born in 1850, the youngest of their children.

You know that I sign my name Edward M.Rawdon; it is really Edward Mostyn Rawdon." He paused, and Ruth said, "I suppose Mrs.Rawdon has had some news from her old home ?" "She had a letter last night, and I shall probably receive one to-morrow.