The family was very poor after he died, but my mother came here for two years, and even when I was a little bit of a girl, seven or eight, years old, before she died, she used to tell me how she loved it, and that I must come here, too." "Don't any of your brothers want to come ?" asked Kit impulsively.

"They're all older than you, aren't they ?" Marcelle shook her head with a curious little smile.
"They are all Beaubien, every one.

They eat, and they sleep and fish, that is all." Kit led the way to the upper floor, where the dormitories were, and meeting Charity, she asked the way to the Douglas.
"Why, you were in that one to-day," replied Charity in surprise.

"It's our dormitory, don't you know ?" "Oh, thank you so much," Kit said, with suspicious alacrity, as she guided Marcelle down the corridor, and Charity glanced back at them both, speculatively, wondering just what special business could take two new day girls into the most exclusive dormitory at Hope..