getting to be a big girl; will you kindly make a point of
teaching her--things?"

"I will do so immejetly, sir," said Miss White. "What things?"

"Why," said Robert Ferguson, helplessly, "why--general morals."
He put his glasses on carefully, with both hands. "Elizabeth
asked me a very improper question; she asked me about divorce,
and--"

"_Divorce_!" exclaimed Miss White, astounded; "I have been
at my post for eight years, sir, and I am positive that that word
has never been used in Elizabeth's presence!"

He did not explain. "Teach her," he said, harshly, "that a woman
has got to behave herself."

Blair having once decided upon it, clung to his purpose of
running away, with a persistency which was his mother's large
determination in little; but the double elopement was delayed for
two days because of the difficulty of securing the necessary
funds. The dining-room, where Mrs. Maitland "kept all her money,"
was rarely entirely deserted. In those brief intervals when the
two clerks were not on hand, Harris seemed to be possessed of a
clean devil, and spent an unusual amount of time "redding up"; or
when Harris was in the kitchen, and Blair, dragging the reluctant
Nannie, had peered into the room, he had been confronted by his
mother. She never saw him--sometimes she was writing; sometimes
talking to a foreman; sometimes knitting, for when Sarah Maitland
had nothing else to do, she made baby socks for the missionary