She felt in her heart that it was a piece of extravagance her father could not afford as an honest man, and she saw prominent among the guests persons she had long mistrusted of being his enemies.

Gay as the scene was it had nothing in it to interest her.

Her thoughts were engaged in something more real and true.

They were wandering just then into a distant ocean in search of the object dearest in her affections, wondering how it fared with him.

Then the picture of Hanz and Angeline, in their humble little home, revealed itself to her, and her mind filled with strange fancies as to the part she might have to perform in saving them from the trouble she saw foreshadowed in her father's conversation with Topman and Gusher.