Go back, sir." Brave understood his master perfectly; and he turned and trotted toward the house, looking back now and then, and whining, as if urging his master to allow him to go too.

Frank did not stop to look back, but sprang into the carriage, and the driver closed the door after him, and mounted to his seat and drove off.

He had scarcely time to get his baggage on board the steamer before she moved off into the stream.

And Frank was glad it was so, for the longer he remained in sight of the village, the harder grew the struggle to leave it.

But, at length, every familiar object was left behind, and being surrounded by new scenes, Frank gradually recovered his usual spirits.
In two days he arrived at Portland, and as he was getting off the cars, he was seized by Archie, who had come to the depot to meet him.
"I'm glad to see you," said the latter; "it is lucky that you wrote just as you did, for father has said a dozen times that I can't go.