I beg your pardon,' he continued, as he met a curious look in Harold's eyes, 'I'm a blunderin' cuss, I be.

I didn't mean nothin', I've ever meant nothin', and if I hev' I'm sorry for it.' Harold did not hear the last, for he was handing Jerrie into the carriage with her father, who bade him enter, too; saying they would leave him at the cottage where he wished to go as soon as possible.
There was no time for much conversation before the cottage was reached, and Harold alighted at the gate, and no allusion whatever had been made to Jerrie's changed relations until Harold stood looking at her as she kept her seat by her father and made no sign of an intention to stop.
Then he said, as calmly as he could: 'Do you stay at the Park House altogether now ?' 'Oh, no,' she answered quickly.

'I have been there a great deal with Maude, but am coming home to-night.

I could not leave grandma alone, you know.' She acknowledged the home and the relationship still, and Harold's face flushed with a look of pleasure, which deepened in intensity when Arthur, with a wave of the hand habitual to him, said: 'I must keep her now that you are here to see to the grandmother, but will let you have her to-night.

Come up later, if you like, and walk home with her.' 'I shall be most happy to do so,' Harold said, and then the carriage drove away, while he went in to his grandmother, who had not attended the funeral, but who knew that he had returned and was waiting for him..