nd the new
love; but she remembered with charity, that she had taken the fresh
young love of another Darcy, and was content with her day.

The young people brought a new atmosphere with them, but it did not
clash with the old. Jane Morgan was planning a home for herself. One of
the cut-up farms had been put together again; and she had taken a
five-years' lease at a low rate, to try a prudent and sensible scheme of
philanthropy. Maverick had been intensely puzzled by Jack's love-affair,
and could not yet account for it satisfactorily, but watched them both
with a kind of amused interest, and dreamed of the deft, dainty little
fairy down at his aunt's.

I suppose I ought to say that Mrs. Jack Darcy vied with her husband in
all good works,--in schools and clubs, and plans for everybody's
improvement; but it was _not_ her _forte_. He was too well satisfied
with her love for him, her music, her enchanting ways, to wish her any
different; and I think he would have been jealous, with that exclusive,
tender, adoring jealousy, that cannot endure its choice treasures
lavished upon others. She was kindly and generous in a stately, queenly
fashion; but what between Jack, who was a more importunate lover than
ever, and the baby born at Larch Avenue, she had her hands quite full.

The five years of mutual copartnership drew to a close. Their young
engineer had not blown up the mills; Bob Winston did not go off at the
last moment with the balance at the bank; Jack Darcy had not falsified
accounts: but it came out just as _everybody_ had predicted that it
would! "If your men were honest and honorable, co-operation could not
fail of success. It was the simplest of all schemes," said "The Evening
Transcript."

The two offices were thrown into one by the sliding-doors, and the
workmen and women assembled in their holiday gear. Jack Darcy was really
struck with the change in their faces and the general demeanor. They had
a brisk, cheery, self-reliant air: there was a certain neatness and
respectability about which they used not to care in the old times. The
boys of five years ago were grown men, and there wasn't a sturdier one
among them than Barton Kane.

And now Jack Darcy proceeded to read the statement of the whole period,
to which every one listened with the most profound attention.

At the close of the first year, after rent, wages, and all other
expenses were taken out, the accumulation of profits had been
$21,642.27. One-hal