CHAPTER XIX.
NEW RELATIONSHIPS AND NEW TITLES.
"Are you hungry, Gracie darling ?" her father asked with tender solicitude.
"No, papa," she said, "we had our breakfast just a little while before Aunt Beulah brought us here." "Well, if ever you suffer from hunger again it shall not be your father's fault," he returned with emotion.
Taking out his watch, "We have a full half hour yet," he said.

"Max, my son, do you know of any place near at hand where oranges, bananas, cakes, and candies are to be had ?" "Oh, yes, papa! just at the next corner." "Then go and lay in a store for our journey," handing him some money.
"May I go too, papa ?" asked Lulu, as Max set off with alacrity.
"No, stay here; I want you by my side," he said, smiling affectionately upon her.
"I'm glad you do! O papa, I have wanted you so badly!" she exclaimed, leaning her cheek against his arm and looking up lovingly into his face, "and so have Max and Gracie.

Haven't we, Gracie ?" "Yes, indeed!" sighed the little one.

"O papa, I wish you didn't ever have to go away and leave us!" "I hope to stay with you longer than usual this time, and when I must go away again to leave you in a very happy home, where no one will wish to ill-use you," he said, with a glad look and smile directed toward his bride.
"No one at Ion or in any house of my dear mother's will ever show them anything but kindness and love if they are good and obedient," said Vi.
"We all obey grandpa, but we love to do it, because he is so dear and never at all unreasonable." "No, I am sure he is not," assented the captain, "and I shall esteem it a great favor if he will count my darlings among his grandchildren.

How would my little Gracie like to have a dear kind grandpa and grandma ?" he asked, smoothing back the curls from the little pale face.
"Oh, ever so much, papa!" she responded with a bright and joyous smile.