When a man had been a general at the age of twenty-six, it meant that he was a man, and when General Keith pronounced that he was a gentleman, it meant that he was a gentleman.

Thus reasoned the neighbors.
His only child was a pretty little girl of five or six years, with great brown eyes, yellow curls, and a rosebud face that dimpled adorably when she laughed.

When Gordon saw her he recognized her instantly as the tot who had given her doll to the little dancer two years before.

Her eyes could not be mistaken.

She used to drive about in the tiniest of village carts, drawn by the most Liliputian of ponies, and Gordon used to call her "Cindy,"-- short for Cinderella,--which amused and pleased her.