him for quite three months, as comparison of dates proved, and what
seemed strange became mere matter of fact--to wit, that Dexter was a
gentleman by birth.

All this took time to work out, but it was proved incontestably, the old
nurse having saved all that the rough fellow had left of his little
companion's belongings; and when everything was made plain, there was
the fact that Dexter was an orphan, and that he had found a home that
was all a boy could desire.

"There, papa! what have you to say now?" said Helen to the doctor one
day.

"Say?" he said testily. "Danby will laugh at me when he knows, and
declare my theory is absurd. I shall never finish that book."

"But you will not try such an experiment again?" said Helen laughingly.

Just then Dexter came in sight, bright, frank, and manly, and merrily
whistling one of Helen's favourite airs.

"No," said the doctor sharply; and then--"God bless him! Yes: if it was
to be the making of such a boy as that!"

THE END.

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