"The respect was not assumed, but wholly genuine, you see, and whether I was entitled to it or not, it was a good deal in Lance's favor that he should offer it to me.

There must be some good in the man who can be moved to reverence anything, even if he is mistaken." "No man with any sense could help adoring you," said Maud Barrington.
"Still, I wonder why you believe I was wrong in wishing he had not come to Silverdale ?" Miss Barrington looked thoughtful.

"I will tell you, my dear.

There are few better men than my brother, but his thoughts, and the traditions he is bound by, are those of fifty years ago, while the restless life of the prairie is a thing of to-day.

We have fallen too far behind it at Silverdale, and a crisis is coming that none of us are prepared for.