But you belong to me still." She looked at him with glistening eyes.

"Thank you, dearest papa; yes, I do belong to you and always shall.

Please excuse my wilful misunderstanding of your query.

I do not know how much money and other property I own, but have an idea it is a million more or less." "My dear child!--it is fully three times that." "Papa! is it indeed ?" "Yes, it was about a million at the time of your Grandfather Grayson's death, and has increased very much during your mamma's minority and yours; which you know has been a very long one.

You own several stores and a dwelling house in New Orleans, a fine plantation with between two and three hundred negroes, and I have invested largely for you in stocks of various kinds both in your own country and in England.