Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad

piano softly playing the one "piece" the music teacher had succeeded in drilling into her flighty head by virtue of much patience and perseverance. In a thick cushioned morris-ch

ggested that the little man was "snoozing" as he sometim

same piece from start to finish seven times since dinner, because it was the only one she knew; but the Major could have listened to it seven hundred times without the flicker of an eyelash. It was not that he admired so much the "piece" the girl was playing as the gi

into one of benign complacency as he observed his surroundings and realized where he was. The interruption gave Patsy an

en asleep,

replied the little man, serio

ption of his Sunday afternoon treat. "You thought 'em aloud, sir, and the sound of it was

w?" asked Uncle J

or. "But to an ignorant individual like meself the impression conveyed was that you snor

I'm sure our dear Uncle John's thoughts were just the most beautiful dreams

y, and Uncle John, who was on the verge of un

to Europe

ary start, and then turned

tsy along," he continued,

jor fr

il you are fully awake," sai

er entirely off the floor. There was a thoughtful look on her round, freckled face, and a wistf

kely to propose any preposterous thing, and then carry it out in spite of all opposition. But to take Patsy to Europe would be like pulling the Major's eye teeth or

not to submit wi

had an idea for some time that you were plotting mischief. You haven't looked me straight in the eye for a week, and

courtesy to the poor or unfortunate was no longer in evidence when he found that John Merrick was a multi-millionaire with a strongly defined habit of doing good to others and striving in obscure and unconventional ways to make everybody around him happy. His affection for the little man increased mightily, but his r

, coolly. "I've been worried to death, lately

Marvin & Co. You've no worry at all. Why, we've ju

important position in the great banking house-a position

pe I'd lose a good round sum on them. But the confounded luck turned, and the result is an accumulation of all this dreadful money. So, my dear Major, before I'm tempted to

r smiled

our eyes and prove to you how insignificant you really are. I advise you to visit Ireland, sor, which I'm reliably informed is the centhral jewel in Europe's crown of beauty. Go; and go whinever y

the brogue when he became excited,

hen there's money and time to spare? Would you keep her here to cuddle and spoil a

Patsy, softly; "and the poor man needs it as much a

e to look after," added

ave a snort

breath you deliberately deprive your little daughter, whom you pretend to love, of the advantages she might gain by a trip abroad! And why? Just b

needed in the office, and Mr. Marvin has been so kind and consider

odded a

ght, daddy

e again. Patsy and her father stared at one another with grave inte

o, mavourneen?"

but I won't

oughtfully, "and you won't be away much longer than you were when you went to Elmhurst after Aunt Jane's money-which you di

ad

lasped around his neck and her soft cheek

will make up for all that we've suffered. It's the way of life, mavourneen. Unless a couple happens to be

't go,

ds me of the one that tried to desthroy the Babes in the Woods, Patsy dear. You must try to reclaim him to humanity, for I'm

ll he understood the Doyle family. His face was n

coanut. When you crack it there's plenty of milk within-and in your c