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The flight of fancy was unprecedented for the speaker. He was sensible of unwonted excitement in a possibility. His companion was still dimpling at the lean figure in the roomy frock coat and high hat. Laura had been a small woman. The judge was considering that if his companion should rise she would equal or overtop his height. Starved. Very needy. So Thinkright had put it. Nonsense.

Meanwhile Sylvia had borne Thinkright away, in front of the house to the shade of the Æolian pine tree, and pulled him down beside her on a rustic seat. "Oh, Thinkright, it's ages since you and I sat here last." "Happy ages, I hope," he answered. "Yes, I've been living a poem ever since I said goodby to you, until this noon.

Lem raised her eyebrows, "I know it. Of course it takes such legions o' milk to supply the cities you can't trust 'em around a pump. Have some more o' the lobsters, Miss Lacey." "Oh, no, thank you." "Then," said Thinkright, "perhaps you'd like to go and help Minty bring home her Daisy." "Who is Daisy?" asked Sylvia of the solemnly staring child, who had been mute throughout the meal.

Soon she again caught sight of the newcomer, who was passing out of the woods and starting up the incline that led to the house. Sylvia at once began to move slowly, her feet noiseless on the grass. Cap'n Lem and Thinkright now came in view, returning from the barn, and Sylvia's eyes grew large as she heard the stranger's gay cry and the men's response. They hastened down the hill to meet her.

They could see the team taken out from the wagon, standing near the barn, their harness dangling while Thinkright and Cap'n Lem were stooping over some object which the wagon hid from the view of those below. "Wouldn't you like to go and speak to him?" asked Sylvia. Miss Martha looked at her curiously. The eager tone and the face all alight were eloquent. Well, Thinkright doubtless deserved it.

"What's the difference?" asked her companion mildly. "You were eating his bread in Boston." Sylvia's cheeks flushed. "I I" she hesitated, "I wasn't going to do it long." "You shan't do it here a day longer than you wish to," returned Thinkright. "Now, child, suppose a case.

"We're a house party," he explained firmly. "We've come over here for some clothes. We shall be obliged to start back in about an hour because we have to take you with us, and we don't want to keep you out too late." "Hey?" asked the judge. "Yes," said Sylvia. "Edna asked us to bring either you or Thinkright back with us." "Now that's very untactful of you, Miss Sylvia," objected John.

"We're surprised at the name, for it is Judge Trent's own selection. It scarcely seems characteristic." Sylvia and her aunt hurried around the other side of the little craft. In neat, small black letters was printed, The Rosy Cloud. Sylvia gazed, then she colored to the roots of the silky curls and laughed. The others watched her curiously. "Do you know what he was aiming at?" asked Thinkright.

The odd little man scowled so intently at her that the girl began to feel uneasy and glanced shoreward. "If you detest all your other relations and love Thinkright then why isn't his home the place for you?" "It the trouble is it isn't his home." "Whose, then?" Judge Trent braced himself in expectation of the answer.

Sylvia caught her lip between her teeth, and her heart swelled. The next morning nature, as always after a gloomy season, seemed trying to cause forgetfulness of its sulks and tears by bringing the whole battery of its charms to bear upon sea and land. After breakfast Thinkright produced a key from his pocket. "There, my girl," he said, "is the key to the boathouse. I know you can scarcely wait."