What is to be done with such a boy ?" "Well, I think we'll postpone the question of his teaching in the Sunday-school, at all events," remarked the vicar, who began to feel rather sorry that he had ever suggested it.

"It's more than probable that his ideas would be over the children's heads, and come into collision with what they heard in church.

Well, now I must be going.
You'll think over that little matter we were speaking of ?" he said, as he took a neighbourly leave of his parishioner and ally.
"Indeed I will, and I'll write to my bankers to-night," replied that lady cordially.
Then the vicar ambled across the lawn, and Austin accompanied him, as in duty bound, to the garden gate.

Meanwhile, Aunt Charlotte leant comfortably back in her wicker chair, absorbed in pleasant meditation.
The repairs to the roof would, no doubt, run into a little money, but the vicar's tip about this wonderful company for extracting gold from sea-water made up for any anxiety she might otherwise have experienced upon that score.

What a kind, good man he was--and _so_ clever in business matters, which, of course, were out of her range altogether.
She took the prospectus out of her pocket, and ran her eyes over it again.