She turned the leaves listlessly, then sat up with an air of attention.

There on the title-page was a line from Stevenson, the very thing Madam Chartley had said to her the day she left Warwick Hall.

"_To renounce when that shall be necessary, and not be embittered._" Phil had chosen wisely after all if his little tale were to tell her how to do it.

Then a paragraph on the first page claimed her attention.
"_Because he was born in Mars' month, the bloodstone became his signet, sure token that undaunted courage would be the jewel of his soul._" Why, she and Jack were both born in Mars' month, and each had a bloodstone, and each had to answer to an awful call for courage.

It was dear of Phil to choose such an appropriate story.