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Then the eldest Miss Avery closed the window overlooking the parsonage and confronted her sisters. "We must just make the best of it," she said quietly. But next door, the gray old ugly parsonage was full to overflowing with satisfaction and happiness and love. The Starrs had never had an appointment like this before. They had just come from the village of Exminster, of five hundred inhabitants.

If these shadowes, Madam, be but darke enough, I shall account it happines to meet you. But referr that to opportunitie, Which our kind starrs in pitty will sooner offer To both our ioyes. Lady. But he is very Jealous. Sir Fr.

Harpe was not listening to her reply. "Get this filled." The prescription she wrote and handed her was scarcely legible. "I'll be in again." She stalked downstairs without more words. The Starrs looked at each other blankly when she had gone. "What's the matter with Dr. Harpe?" Elsewhere throughout the town the same question was being asked.

The Starrs left Oakwood the latter part of October and reached Grand Forks the first of November. From there they traveled by various routes until they reached their destination in the extreme southeastern part of Manitoba. Here, the Latimers awaited them, and had made all arrangements for the further journey into the heart of the forests where the pine and other valuable timber stood.

While the Starrs are following their friends, the Latimers, from the station to the hotel, let us see how they all came to be in this faraway place in Canada. When the Starrs left the island in Casco Bay in the early part of September, Mr. Latimer, who lived in Portland, Maine, mentioned a trip to the lumber regions of Canada. As Mr. Starr was interested in a large lumber deal with Mr.

"Looks like a scout astronomy chart," said Tom. "It's all dots like the big dipper." "Do you s'pose it means they're going to conquer the sky and all the starrs and everything?" Archer asked. "Here's a letter, it's dated about two weeks ago I can make out the numbers all right."

But sea-captings should not be eternly spowting and invoking gods, hevns, starrs, angels, and other silestial influences. We can all do it, Barnet; nothing in life is esier.

But this was their first combined movement upon the parsonage, and Prudence and Fairy realized that much depended on the success of the day. As girls, the whole Methodist church pronounced the young Starrs charming. But as parsonage people, well, they were obliged to reserve judgment.

And she admitted that she must certainly have cried, save for the restraining influence of the knowledge that crying made her nose red. In the meantime, back in Iowa, the Starrs in their separate households, were running riot. Never was there to be such a wonderful visit for anybody in the world.

Once, just once, he was willing to test the social possibilities of his brother-in-law, so Symes magnanimously gave him his chance and the name of Adolph Kunkel headed the list. The Percy Parrotts, of course, went through the sieve, and the Starrs, and Dr. Emma Harpe, but there was the embarrassing question of Mrs.