It was a fine evening; and how those red Island shores did gleam in the sunshine.

Now I'm crossing the strait again.

Oh, Gilbert, I do hope I'll like Redmond and Kingsport, but I'm sure I won't!" "Where's all your philosophy gone, Anne ?" "It's all submerged under a great, swamping wave of loneliness and homesickness.

I've longed for three years to go to Redmond--and now I'm going--and I wish I weren't! Never mind! I shall be cheerful and philosophical again after I have just one good cry.

I MUST have that, 'as a went'-- and I'll have to wait until I get into my boardinghouse bed tonight, wherever it may be, before I can have it.