"You know, I was born and brought up and educated there, and lived there until my people died." "I suppose you know a good many young ladies." "Thousands," said Horace; "but none of them will look at me." "You didn't ask them ?" "Not all, only a few, but they wouldn't." "I'd like to know why not ?" Then Henry spoke.

"Sylvia," he said, "Mr.Allen is only joking." "I hope he is," Sylvia said, severely.

"He's too young to think of getting married.

It makes me sick, though, to see the way girls chase any man, and their mothers, too, for that matter.

Mrs.Jim Jones and Mrs.Sam Elliot both came while you were gone, Mr.Allen.They said they thought maybe we wouldn't take a boarder now we have come into property, and maybe you would like to go there, and I knew just as well as if they had spoken what they had in their minds.