THE PRIMROSE WAY Spring and winter, and spring again, and flying rumors fluttered tantalizing wings over Clayton.

Just when it was definitely announced that Willowvale was to be sold, Ruth Nelson returned, after a year's absence, and opened the old home.
Mrs.Nelson did not come with her.

That excellent lady had concluded to bestow her talents upon a worthier object.

In her place came Miss Merritt, a quiet little sister of Ruth's mother, who proved to be to the curious public a pump without a handle.
About this time Sandy Kilday returned from his last term at the university, and gossip was busy over the burden of honors under which he staggered, and the brilliance of the position he had accepted in the city.

In prompt contradiction of this came the shining new sign, "Hollis & Kilday," which appeared over the judge's dingy little office.
Nobody but Ruth knew what that sign had cost Sandy.