The five impulsive millionaires of Devil's Ford fulfilled not a few of their most extravagant promises.

In less than six weeks Mr.Carr and his daughters were installed in a new house, built near the site of the double cabin, which was again transferred to the settlement, in order to give greater seclusion to the fair guests.

It was a long, roomy, one-storied villa, with a not unpicturesque combination of deep veranda and trellis work, which relieved the flat monotony of the interior and the barrenness of the freshly-cleared ground.

An upright piano, brought from Sacramento, occupied the corner of the parlor.

A suite of gorgeous furniture, whose pronounced and extravagant glories the young girls instinctively hid under home-made linen covers, had also been spoils from afar.