position in the office of a large manufacturing firm, the
family had reason to hope that this was their last move for some years.

Dexie was delighted at the possibilities which the well-laid-out kitchen
garden at the rear of the house promised to afford. Everything at present
was bare and sere, but when the spring opened it would require but little
labor, and that of a pleasant description, to prepare a garden that should
delight the heart of any housekeeper; and the flower-beds in the front of
the house, which were now covered and protected by branches of fir, would
in due season blossom into spots of beauty.

The family-life at this time was very pleasant. Gussie seemed to have
forgotten, for the time, all her former jealous and unkind feelings, which
had made her so often, while in Halifax, an unpleasant member of the
household.

Society in Lennoxville was pleasant and attractive, and the Sherwoods were
made right welcome among a choice circle of friends. Invitations to social
gatherings were showered upon the twin girls until their popularity was so
firmly established that no one thought of questioning it.

Dexie missed her Halifax friends very much. She met with no one in her new
home who could fill the place that the Gurney family had held in her heart,
and among all her many friends there was none she could make such an
intimate companion of as Elsie Gurney. In musical circles, Dexie soon
filled an envious position; but so far she had met no one whose sympathies
were like Lancy's. Oh, yes, she missed Lancy very much, indeed--she never
hesitated to confess it when the matter was alluded to; and very often,
when alone in the parlor, the piece of music which had such a strange power
over each of them filled the air with unmistakable longing, and seemed to
speak of loneliness and sorrow. But her bright face expressed no such sad
feeling to others; it seemed only the musical side of her nature that
mourned the loss of a kind and sympathetic friend.

She heard quite frequently from Elsie, and Lancy's weekly letters were
always bright and chatty; but they left Dexie with a certain uneasy feeling
that should have had no place in her heart, if Lancy's expressed regards
met with the reciprocation which he had some right to expect.

She would not have cared to confess to the relief she experienced when,
some weeks later, Lancy wrote to her of his intended visit to England,
where he meant to spend a few months among his