I thought you would meet them." "Yes, I met them just as I turned from Main Street," replied Randolph, soberly, but he was inwardly amused.

He understood his mother.

But there was something which he did not tell her concerning his experience with the new-comers, the Carrolls.

Shortly, she went out to give some directions about tea, and Randolph, sitting beside a window in the parlor with an evening paper, drew from his pocket a letter just received in the mail, and examined it again.

It was from a city bank, and it contained a repudiated check for ten dollars, made out by Captain Arthur Carroll, and which Anderson had cashed a few days previous at the request of the pretty young girl in the carriage, who to-night had sat there looking at him and did not speak, either because she had forgotten his face as he did her the little favor, or because he was so far away from her social scale that she was innocently unaware of any necessity for it..