If you was only goin' t' live where I could ride over once or twice a week to see you, it would be different." "Yes, Daddy; but maybe I won't go after all.

I'm not married, yet, you know." Something in her voice or manner caused Jim to hold his daughter at arm's length, and look full into the brown eyes; "What do you mean, girl ?" Sammy laughed in an uneasy and embarrassed way.

She was not sure that she knew herself all that lay beneath the simple words.

She tried to explain.

"Why, I mean that--that Ollie and I have both grown up since we promised, and he has been living away out in the big world and going to school besides.