Meg, of Valencia

s in a

d, he quickened the pace, and his hands caused his coat-tails to stand out in a most jaunty and undignified manner. He was pacing

sandy in coloring, and both wearing the same humorous, half-quizzical smile, which in her was saddened by the loss her deep mourni

tommy-rot. And it's all because you wouldn't call him Bob! How the deuce do you expe

xpected to call such a splendid boy anything else? 'Bob,' for him, would

t that you can make or mar a boy by a name. Y

ine, I

Lacy dresses which he never tore, wax dolls, kittens, and long

people object to, Bob," his

Your boy went on the principle by which some people govern th

Now, look here. Suppose you had called him 'Bob.' There would have been no long curls or doll-rags for h

h dignity, and asked,

able, I wouldn't care; but to think of all those virtues being shut up in a mona

d at her, and added softly, dropping into a chair by her side: "It's all beca

John's religion, and it was understood tha

alone in the world. He wouldn't have want

I would not lay one straw in the way, or stand

But can't the young whelp see where his duty is? Now, don't be angry, Stella. Do you thi

nothing to Robert on the subject. His mind is quite made up, quite. He believes it to be his

mother, and she was a widow,'

make him very unhappy, but w

y may yet be fou

child. It has grown with him. It is so interwoven with the very fibres of his being that it

You will wave your handkerchief and smile as the gates close u

t," she begg

ou so. But I've a scheme to stop this foolis

ther patted her on the shoulder and said,

then it died out as she said slowly, "I cannot conspire

ion isn't necessary anyway. But you and Robert will c

he walked out of the room with his

for he was undeniably good to gaze upon. He was tall, well formed and athletic in build, with the fresh coloring, the warm, honest gray eyes, clear-cut features and rippling dark hair of a long race of Celtic ancestor

nd meeting her smile with tender, earnest eyes. "That thought makes me very happy, for

ld control her voice, and finally answered: "No, I was never given to moping, my son. But to be irrelev

k I would enjoy one good ol

ind Uncle Bob," sai