liked to confess to any one how constantly she was in his mind, or
how many plans he had devised in order to atone for the wrong he knew he
was doing her. And now his brother had taken her off his hands, and she
was to be cared for and receive the education which would fit her to
earn her own livelihood, and make her future life respectable. No
particular harm was done her after all, and he might now enjoy himself,
and cast his morbid fancies to the winds, he reflected, as he went
whistling to his wife's apartment, and told her what he had heard.

For a moment Dolly was speechless with astonishment, and when at last
she opened her lips, her husband silenced her with that voice and manner
of which she was beginning to be afraid.

It was none of their business, he said, what Arthur did in his own
house, provided they were not molested, and if he chose to turn
schoolmaster, he had a right to do so. For his part, he was glad of it,
as it saved him the expense of Jerry's education, for if Arthur had not
taken it in hand, he should; and Dolly was to keep quiet and let the
child come and go in peace.

After delivering himself of these sentiments, Frank went away, leaving
his wife to wonder, as she had done more than once, if he, too, were not
a little crazy, like his brother. But, she said no mare about Jerry's
coming there, except to suggest that she might at least come in at the
side door instead of the front, especially on muddy days when she was
liable to soil the costly carpets. And Jerry, who cared but little how
she entered the house, if she only got in, came through the kitchen
after the second day, and wiped her feet upon the mat; and once, when
her shoes were worse than usual, took them off, lest they should leave a
track.

It is not our intention to linger over the first few months of Jerry's
school days at Tracy Park, but rather to hasten on to the summer four
years after her introduction to Tracy Park as Arthur's pupil. During all
that time he had never once seemed to grow weary of the task he had
imposed upon himself, but, on the contrary, his interest had daily
deepened in the child who developed so rapidly under his training that
he sometimes looked at her in astonishment, marvelling more and more who
she was and from whom she had inherited her wonderful memory and power
to grasp points which are usually far beyond the comprehension of a
child of ten, or even twelve, and which Maude Tracy could no more have