"And, love, there is no way back." * * * * * THE LOOKER-ON I "Oh, I'm going to be Lady Jane Grey," said Charlie Cleveland, balancing himself on the deck-rail in front of his friends, Mrs.Langdale and Mollie Erle, with considerable agility.

"And, Mollie, I say, will you lend me a black silk skirt?
I saw you were wearing one last night." He spoke with complete seriousness.

It was this boy's way to infuse into all his actions an enthusiasm that deprived the most trifling of the commonplace element.

He was the gayest passenger on board--the very life of the boat.

Yet he had few accomplishments to recommend him, his abundant spirits alone attaining for him the popularity he everywhere enjoyed.
Molly Erle, who with Mrs.Langdale was returning home after spending the winter with some friends at Calcutta, regarded him with a toleration not wholly devoid of contempt.