MRS.

JOHNSON'S LETTER The spring had passed away, and the warm June sun was shining over Spring Bank, whose mistress and servants were very lonely now, for Hugh was absent, and with him the light of the house had departed.

Business of his late uncle's had taken him to New Orleans, where he might possibly remain all the summer.

'Lina was glad, for since the fatal dress affair there had been but little harmony between herself and her brother.

The tenderness awakened by her long illness seemed to have been forgotten, and Hugh's manner toward her was cold and irritating to the last degree, so that the young lady rejoiced to be freed from his presence.
"I do hope he'll stay all summer," she said one morning, when speaking of him to her mother.