You tell him, will you, and ask him if he sees his way to accepting that figure ?" "Yes," Alice said; and now her own lips twitched, while her eyes filled so that she saw but a blurred image of the old man, who held out his hand in parting.

"I'll tell him.

Thank you." He shook her hand hastily.

"Well, let's just keep it kind of quiet," he said, at the door.

"No good in every Tom, Dick and Harry knowing all what goes on in town! You telephone me when your papa's ready to go over the papers--and call me up at my house to-night, will you?
Let me hear how he's feeling ?" "I will," she said, and through her grateful tears gave him a smile almost radiant.