Poor old Van Diemen! He thought it a safe bequest to make." "It was; it is! We will stay; we will not be exiled," said Annette.

"I will do anything.

What was the quarrel about, papa ?" "The fact is, my dear, I just wanted to show him--and take down his pride--I'm by my Australian education a shrewder hand than his old country.

I bought the house on the beach while he was chaffering, and then I sold it him at a rise when the town was looking up--only to make him see.

Then he burst up about something I said of Australia.