Dick may be thankful--and I don't in the least doubt that he is--to get Maud, without considering how she is attired, or of what her wardrobe consists." "I say amen to that, uncle," smiled Dick, "and shall only enjoy speedily supplying anything lacking in her wardrobe.

I'll be glad, indeed, to have the right." "Very good in you, Dick; but it isn't the bridegroom's place to supply the trousseau," said Chester, only half mollified.

"And there is no occasion, seeing her brothers are able to do it, and willing, to say nothing of her own means." "Oh, Ches, don't be vexed," said Maud.

"It will all be right; I have a very good wardrobe, and don't mean to let Dick buy anything for me this long while." At which Dick laughed meaningly, as much as to say: "In regard to that I shall do as I please or think best." Chester was somewhat out of sorts; he did not like to have his sister hurried into marriage without a trousseau, and he had noticed something that displeased him still more in Captain Keith's manner toward Lucilla Raymond.

It was hard, very hard, he thought, that her father would not allow him to tell her the story of his love.