Even Dane is scarcely fitted to help my brother to face it, and the rest are either over-fond of their pleasure or untrained boys.

Brave lads they are, but none of them have been taught that it is only by mental strain, or the ceaseless toil of his body, the man without an inheritance can win himself a competence now.

This is why they want a leader who has known hardship and hunger, instead of ease, and won what he holds with his own hand in place of having it given him." "You fancy we could find one in such a man as Lance has been ?" Miss Barrington looked grave.

"I believe the prodigal was afterwards a better as well as a wiser man than the one who stayed at home, and I am not quite sure that Lance's history is so nearly like that of the son in the parable as we have believed it to be.

A residence in the sty is apt to leave a stain which I have not found on him, though I have looked for it." The eyes of the two women met, and, though nothing more was said, each realized that the other was perplexed by the same question, while the girl was astonished to find her vague suspicions shared.