under Kit's careful supervision, and the acceptance was

, who was to meet the child in Chicago. The through express would leave him there, and in order to c

r brother. One of the latter's favorite mottoes wa

in motion f

nnot c

unger sister, and ever since her girlhood had tried to give him all the love and encouragement that others refused. She had trotted after him faithfully and happily on all of his exploring expeditions. Perhaps one reason why these had been so successful was because

her tent, had always retained her courage, although she had faced dangers that the average woman would have fled from. Perhaps she carried in her hea

ve of pine trees almost hid it from view on its street side, the stately Norway pines that Kit always loved. The back of the house looked directly out over the lake, and the land here was frankly left to nature. Trees, grass and underbrush rioted at will, until they suddenly end

the night before Kit herself.

Station, Chicago, T

. "Humph! Nickname. Supe

his desk with a little smile that w

's a nice name. I always liked the legend of St. Christopher. Somebody'll have

fourteen, Daphne, I was earning my own living working on a farm, summers, and going to a school in the winter time where we al

ther expatiated on any of his favorite topics. It had grown to be

lexed expression on her face. It had not altogether been her desire that the coming child should be a boy, although not one word had she breathed of

had been a sudden one. The Dean had been reading so

ill suffer for it as we grow older. We have shut ourselves away from youth. I am seventy-four now, and what heritage am I leaving to the world beyond

p with a little amuse

n exceptional child for such an experiment. One who would have

sing his lips and tapping his knu

d of knowledge where it needed much cultivating. It has surprised and amazed me up at the college to find th

she thought of Elizabeth Ann Robbins, their niece, and all her nestful of young mouths to be satisfied with life's gifts and privileges. She remembered having one letter after the breaking up of the home on Long Island. T

how material needs never seemed to suggest themselves to the Dean. Blessed with absolute self-reliance from his boyhood, he had educated and made a success of h

little way she had, "I think it would be the right thing if we to

ls?" interru

Daphne, because I've always sent her a silver spoon on her birthday since she was born. They're all of them over ten, I am sure. Why