"How glad Sister Lulu will be to see you and Elsie, and Gracie!" "And we'll be just as glad to see her, papa," said Grace.

"I know it's not very long since we came away from our own dear home and Lu, but it does seem a long time." "Isn't Lu tired doing without us, papa ?" asked Elsie.
"I think she is," he replied; "at all events I know she will be very glad to see you.

It is nearly dinner-time now," he added, looking at his watch, "so we will go directly home.

But this afternoon I will take you all for a nice, long drive, then leave you little ones at Ion and take Lulu home again." Lulu had been busy all the morning attending to her studies, her practice on the piano, the demands of the dressmaker, and taking her usual exercise about the grounds.

She was out in them now, watching for the coming of her father, eager to see him and to hear how it was with dear Grandma Elsie.
Presently she heard the sound of carriage-wheels on the road, then in another minute the vehicle turned in at the great gates and came rapidly up the drive, little Elsie calling out from it, "Lu, Lu, we've come!" "Have you, Elsie?
Oh, I'm so glad!" she called in reply.
The carriage had stopped, Lulu bounded toward it, and her father, throwing open the door, helped her in.