And now, sir"-- she addressed Joe--"now that you have brought this dear girl all the way across the Atlantic, what are you going to do ?" "Well, I don't exactly know that there's anything to keep me," said Joe.

"You see, I've got my practice to look after at home--I am a physician, as I told you--and my wife and children; and the sooner I get back the better, now that I can leave Iris with her friends, safe and comfortable.

Stay," he added, "there are all those papers which I promised you--the certificates, and the rest of them.

You had better take them all, miss, and keep them for Iris." "Thank you," said Clara, touched by this confidence; "Iris will be safe with me.

It is very natural that you should want to go home again.