the scholarship; it was Dieppe,--Ursula Alice, daughter of Alwyn
Piercefield and Alice Elizabeth Egremont, May 15, 1860. James
Everett--I think he was the chaplain at Dieppe.'

Mary Nugent thought it the wisest way to laugh and say: 'You, of all
people in the world, to want to make out a connection with the
aristocracy!'

'True love is different,' said Ursula. 'He must have been cast off
by his family for her sake, and have chosen poverty--


"To make the croon a pund, my Alwyn gaed to sea,
And the croon and the pund, they were baith for me."'


Miss Mary did not think a yacht a likely place for the conversion of
a croon into a pound, and the utter silence of mother and aunt did
not seem to her satisfactory; but she feared either to damp the
youthful enthusiasm for the lost father, or to foster curiosity that
might lead to some painful discovery, so she took refuge in an
inarticulate sound.

'I think Mr. Dutton knows,' proceeded Nuttie.

'You don't mean to ask him?'

'Catch me! I know how he would look at me.'

'Slang! A forfeit!'