MR.

KEITH'S IDEALS After this it was astonishing how many excuses Gordon could find for visiting the village.

He was always wanting to consult a book in the Doctor's library, or get something, which, indeed, meant that he wanted to get a glimpse of a young girl with violet eyes and pink cheeks, stretched out in a lounging-chair, picturesquely reclining amid clouds of white pillows.

Nearly always he carried with him a bunch of flowers from Mrs.Rawson's garden, which were to make patches of pink or red or yellow among Miss Alice's pillows, and bring a fresh light into her eyes.

And sometimes he took a basket of cherries or strawberries for Mrs.Yorke.His friends, the Doctor and the Rawsons, began to rally him on his new interest in the Springs.
"I see you are takin' a few nubbins for the old cow," said Squire Rawson, one afternoon as Gordon started off, at which Gordon blushed as red as the cherries he was carrying.