She seemed almost too pretty to send on that long journey alone, and Hugh felt that he might be doing wrong in suffering her to depart without an escort.

But Adah only laughed at his fears.

Willie was her protector, she said, and then, as the train came up she turned to Mrs.
Worthington, who, haunted with the dread lest something should happen to prevent 'Lina's marriage, said softly: "You'll be careful about 'Lina ?" Yes, Adah would be careful, and to Alice she whispered: "I'll write after I get there, but you must not answer it at least not till I say you may.

Good-by." * * * * * "Come, mother, we are waiting for you," Hugh said.
At the sound of Hugh's voice she started and replied: "Oh, yes, I remember--we are to visit the penitentiary.

Dear me," and in a kind of absent way, Mrs.Worthington took Hugh's arm, and the party proceeded on their way to the huge building known as the Frankfort Penitentiary.