nting Monday, and told of Leonard
Brooks' call with his friend Mr. Holden, and of the tableau
entertainment to which she was pledged. They had all heard more or less
of it, and all in some form or other had received petitions for help,
but none of them had come in direct contact with it, save Eurie, and it
appeared that the rest of them had given the matter very little
attention. Still, they were willing to go with Eurie, and see what was
to be seen. At least they walked on in that direction.

Dr. Dennis and his daughter were directly behind them. As they neared a
brightly-lighted street corner, he came up to Eurie and Marion, who were
walking together, with a pleasant good-evening. Something in Marion's
manner of singing the hymn had interested him, and also he was
interested in learning, if he could, what motive had brought them to so
unusual a place as the prayer-meeting.

"It is a lovely evening for a walk," he said. "But, Miss Wilbur, you
don't propose to take it alone, I hope! Isn't your boarding place at
some distance?"

She was not going directly home, Marion explained, not caring to admit
the loneliness, and also what evidently seemed to Dr. Dennis the
impropriety of having to traverse the street alone so often that it had
failed to seem a strange thing to her. Eurie volunteered further
information:

"We are going up to Annesley's Hall, to make arrangements for the
tableau entertainment."

Now, it so happened that Dr. Dennis knew more about the tableau
entertainment than Eurie did, and his few minutes of feeling that
perhaps he had misjudged those girls, departed at once; so did his
genial manner.

"Indeed!" he said, in the coldest tone imaginable, and almost
immediately dropped back with his daughter.

There was a gentleman hurrying down the walk, evidently for the purpose
of overtaking him. At this moment he pronounced the doctor's name.

"Walk on, Grace, I will join you in a moment," the girls heard Dr.
Dennis say, and Grace stepped forward alone.

Marion glanced back. But a few weeks ago it would have been nothing to
her that Grace Dennis or anyone else walked alone, so that she had no
need for their company. But the law of unselfishness, which is the very
essence of a true Christian life, was already beginning to work
unconsciously in this girl's heart, and it made her turn now and say to
Grace, with winning voice:

"Have you lost your companion? Come and walk with us until you can have
him a