CHAPTER IV.
AT THE HOME OF WINNIE LEE.
Frank Merriwell seemed the personification of spring as he approached the residence of Fairfax Lee, the next afternoon.

Spring is the time when the wine of life flows warm through the veins of Nature.

Its face holds the bloom of youth and the smile of hope.

Its heart is all aglow with the joy of living.

The golden summer is before it; and it has no dead past, for the winter seems to belong to the year that has gone.
A handsomer specimen of young manhood could not have been found.