I must start for Montreal to-morrow morning." He rose and left the room.

Grace turned to her step-daughter.
"I am afraid you must think us heartless, Kate; but we have known very little of this uncle, and that little was not favourable.

He was a miser--a stern and hard man--living always alone and with few friends.

I am so thankful he left his money to Frank." Doctor Frank left St.Croix next morning for the city, and his absence made a strange blank in the family.

The spring days wore on slowly.
April was gone, and it was May.