ive look.

"Ah, laddie, you must not expect or ask too much of your auld kinsman,"
returned Mr. Lilburn with a slight smile and a dubious shake of the head.

At that moment Violet rejoined them, the short evening service was held,
and then all retired to rest, leaving further discussion of the morrow's
doings to be carried on in the morning.

CHAPTER V.

Everybody was ready for an early start the next morning and Harold and
Herbert were waiting for them in the Peristyle. Some time was spent there
and in the Court of Honor, then in the Midway Plaisance. Watching the
crowds was very amusing--the wild people from Dahomey wearing American
flags around their dusky thighs, the Turks, the Arabs, and men, women, and
children of many other nations all in their peculiar costumes, so
different from the dress of our own people.

Then the hundred thousand flags, very many of our own with their stripes
and stars, and those of perhaps every other nation that has one to
display--were flung to the breeze, while bands from Cincinnati and Iowa,
from Vienna, Suabia, and Arabia had all got together and were playing
Yankee Doodle.

There were besides many curious bands of Oriental musicians--some of them
making great but futile efforts to play our national airs--producing
sounds that were by no means delightsome to the American ear; not half so
pleasing as the sight of the multi-colored flags decorating the huts and
castles of foreign architecture.

It turned out to be a day of pleasant surprises. As they neared the end of
the Plaisance they came suddenly and unexpectedly upon Chester and Frank
Dinsmore and Will Croley, the old college mate of Harold and Herbert, whom
none of them had seen since the summer spent together on the New England
coast several years before.

All were delighted; cordial greetings on both sides were exchanged, and
scarcely were these over when in a lady passing by Grandma Elsie
recognized, with a little cry of joyous surprise, her old time friend and
cousin, Annis Keith.

"Annis! oh, how glad I am to see you!" she exclaimed.

"Elsie! my dear, dearest cousin!" cried Annis in return, as they grasped
each other's hands and looked with ardent affection each into the other's
eyes. "Oh, how delightful to have come upon you so quickly! I was
wondering if I could ever find you in all this crowd, and to have fairly
stumbled upon you almost the first thing after leaving the cars is most
fortunate."

"Yes;