That rising young architect, chairman of the Building Committee of the Council, trustee of church funds, politician and all-round man of the world--most of which he carried in a sling--seemed in a particularly happy frame of mind this morning judging from the buoyancy with which he stepped.

This had communicated itself to the gayety of his attire, for he was dressed in a light-gray check suit, and wore a straw hat (the first to see the light of summer) with a green ribbon about the crown,--together with a white waistcoat and white spats, the whole enriched by a red rose bud which Corinne had with her own hands pinned in his buttonhole.
"Why, hello! Jack, old man! just the very fellow I'm looking for," cried the joyous traveller.

"You going to New York ?--So am I,--go every day now,--got something on ice,--the biggest thing I've ever struck.

I'll show that uncle of yours that two can play at his game.

He hasn't lifted his hand to help us, and I don't want him to,--Cory and I can get along; but you'd think he'd come out and see us once in a while, wouldn't you, or ask after the baby; Mrs.Breen comes, but not Breen.