Now whether she's here, there, or yon, can't be found out, though Squire Tompkins allowed--and he were a lawyer--that the old man could get a divorce if he wanted, and that you see would make me a whole orphan, ef I keerd to prove title, ez the lawyers say.

Well--thut sorter lets the old folks out.

Then my brother was onc't drowned in the North Platt, and I never had any sisters.

That don't leave much family for plannin' about--does it ?" "No," said the master reflectively, gazing at Uncle Ben, "unless you avail yourself of your advantages now and have one of your own.

I suppose now that you are rich, you'll marry." Uncle Ben slightly changed his position, and then with his finger and thumb began to apparently feed himself with certain crumbs which had escaped from the children's luncheon-baskets and were still lying on the bench.