perience on the last voyage they had taken, that she should not be
sea-sick, and so everybody was as happy and jolly as possible.

During the afternoon, after they had all been sitting on deck for some
time, talking of the dear ones left at home, and of the many friends
whom they hoped soon to meet, Ruth said she was going down to open her
trunk and get out the album containing the pictures of her girl friends
in Norton, and see if they looked as she remembered them. It was so
long since she had opened this album that she had almost forgotten
whose pictures were in it. She soon returned with it in her hand, and
with a very puzzled expression on her face.

"Mark," she said, "did you ever think that Frank March looked like
anybody else whom we know?"

"I don't know," answered Mark. "Yes, come to think of it, I have
thought two or three times that his face had a familiar look, but I
never could think who it was he resembled. Why?"

Placing the album in his hand, and opening it to the first page, on
which was the photograph of Edna May, Ruth said, "Do you think he looks
anything like that?"

"Why, yes! of course he does," exclaimed Mark, startled at the
resemblance he saw. "He looks enough like the picture to be Edna's
brother."

"Aunt Emily," said Ruth, turning to Mrs. Coburn, who sat near them, "do
you know in what Southern city Captain May found Edna?"

"Yes, it was in the one we have just left--Savannah."

"And Frank came from Savannah, and he lost his mother and little sister
there, and Edna's own mother was drowned there. Oh, Mark, if it should
be!" cried Ruth, much excited.

"Wouldn't it be just too jolly?" said Mark.

Mrs. Coburn became almost as interested as the children when the matter
was explained to her; but Captain May was quite provoked when he heard
of it. He said it was only a chance resemblance, and there couldn't be
anything in it. He had made inquiries in Savannah at the time, and
never heard anything of any father or brother either, and at any rate
he was not going to lose his Edna now for all the brothers and fathers
in the world. He finally said that unless they gave him a solemn
promise not to mention a word of all this to Edna, he should not let
her visit them next winter. So the children promised, and the captain
was satisfied; but they talked the matter over between themselves, and
became more and more convinced that Frank March and Edna May were
brother and sister.

After this the