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With all these worries upon him it was little wonder if Mr Ratman's letters hurt his feelings. He was very much inclined to throw up the sponge and vanish from the Maxfield horizon, and might have attempted the feat had not a letter which arrived on the following day suggested another way out of his difficulties. It came from America, addressed to the late Squire, and read thus

"Mr Frank Armstrong is informed that his services as tutor to Roger Ingleton will not be required after this day month, the 25th prox. Mr Armstrong is at liberty to remain at Maxfield until that date, or may leave at once on accepting a month's wages in lieu of notice. For the Executors of Roger Ingleton, "Edward Oliphant."

And the somewhat dismal soliloquy ended in a some what dismal laugh, as the heir of Maxfield assumed the perpendicular and pulled up his blind. Mr Armstrong, fresh from his dip in the sea, came in before he had finished dressing. "Well, old fellow," said he, "many happy returns! How are you pretty fit?" "I'm not sorry there's a year between each," said the boy. "What's wrong?" said the tutor.

Fountains of Four Seasons, illumination of red walls against intense blue of sky, in early evening like color in paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Concealed lights, red, orange, yellow and lemon, fall on walls and create interesting luminous shadows on fountain figures.

Well, well!" To do Mr Pottinger justice, this opinion of his was of no recent date. Indeed, it was of as long standing as the tutor's first arrival at Maxfield, eighteen months ago. It was one of the few matters on which he and his late client had differed.

Absolutely." Was her father ever fretted, Mary wondered, by this sort of thing? Did his nerves draw tight, and his muscles, too, waiting for the idea behind these perambulations to emerge? "I can imagine a lot of things that Mr. Maxfield Ware would be right about," she observed. "Which one is this?" "About me," said Paula. "About what I'd have to do if I wanted to get anywhere.

It was not without a pang that she uprooted herself from her surroundings in Maxfield, or bore the protests of Roger, the tears of Jill, and the chaff of Tom for her desertion. "It's not that you're not all awfully kind," said she to the first that afternoon, when the party was assembled in his room. "You are too kind that's why I'm going."

If you were a real luminary, not just a blank white surface, all the mud that Mr. Maxfield Ware could splash wouldn't matter. You burnt it off. None of those great names was soiled. She tried to say something like this to her father, but didn't feel sure that she quite had his attention. He did quiet down again however and resumed his seat at the foot of the tree.

If the Ambassador to Italy remarks to the State Department at Washington that Maxfield Hamilton seems a likely young chap with both eyes open and that he wouldn't mind having him on his staff, why Max may receive a document telling him to pack his little box and attach his person to the Embassy at Rome." Roger laughed. "Then you don't like Paris?" "Oh, yes," said Max thoughtfully.

You are not strong, your future is all in Maxfield; the happiness of your mother, your hopes of winning the object of your affections, are involved in the step you take. Had he been living with any desire or intention of claiming his title, he would certainly have come forward months ago "