long evenings when was busy with knitting work and her father told long and spirited stories of his early experiences along the coast and among the business cares began to fret this and as suddenly as ho ho went away again on a misty morning thai promised rain he was very sorry when he said good by to she was crying as be left and a great wave of tbe of poured itself e he should see her again that was certain be that he spirit away to climate and half his thought as he stood hesitating thai last on the little beach the next he was in the boat and pushing out from shore george looked aa and ruddy and weather beaten as his daughter and like some frost bitten flower that tries to lift itself when morning comes and it feels the of the sun the tough witli his pet doctrines and angry could hare no idea of the loneliness of his wife and daughter all these years on his folly island and yet how much tliey had been saved of useless and of petty tyranny from narrow souls i had a bitter of all as he leaned back against the side of the boat and slowly out into the bay while seemed to retreat into tlie fog and slowly disappear his thoughts flew before him to his office to his clerks and accounts he thought of his wealth which buying him nothing of ue friends who were no friends al all for tbe k or i ho had away some who might have been near strangely impatient of familiarity and on the against mockery or he was tlie true king of folly not this work worn be had been a and a more selfish man these many years george was watching eagerly as if he hail been waiting for this chance to s to him alone � you seem to a kind of solitary ho c� with his customary frankness i expect it never your thought that t would be to married yes i thought about it once some years ago answered seriously � was you well twas better soon nor late if it to be tlie sage my mind has been on s case was a master on an i was dreadful set against of her go though i call to mind there was a likely chap as found her out an made to hind an try to court her i drove him i tell you an him under when i caught him afterward out a an he took the hint did n t know what or wm to pay i mj liked to him no r� � he was very apt to be silent you expected him to � and presently the king resumed i te been thinking that ought to sort o up she pines for her mother they was a sight o company for each other now i s pose you t take no sort o fancy for her in o time i to got more hard cash away folks expects an you should your own way i a cousin o mine a widow woman to keep the house an you an the need n t only summer here i take it e got some means found himself smiling at this pathetic appeal and was ashamed of himself directly and turned to i m afraid i n t think of it be answered suppose � � � lor no said george sadly his she ain t gift no sign that i be � r see her take to no as she has to you i thought you might an i or you thought the island was a place t would do no harm to speak they were on their way to john s island where was to take uie s boat to the main land found his fog bound way by some mysterious instinct and at journey s ends the friends parted with little show of or emotion yet there was much expression in s grasp of his hand thought and both men turned more once as the boats separated to give a kindly glance backward people are not brought together in this world for nothing and r had no idea of tlie confusion tliat his theories and his manner of life had brought into tlie well affairs of john was of curiosity about the visit but he little satisfaction � � was the on these b some ten years ago be proclaimed an a bom lady her mother s folks was ministers over to the winter was gone when ed a letter in a yellow envelope ess li k e in iti appearance of r the king or folly i of wrote to say that had been hoping to get strength enough to thank him for the generous box which had sent he had both his imagination and memory to supply the minor wants and fancies of the dot was steadily failing in health and the cousin had already been summoned to take care of her and to manage the keeping the king wrote a hand as if he had used a fish hook instead of a pen and he told the truth about his sad affairs with simple only sent a message of thanks and an assurance that she liked to think of s being in the fall be would soon send him a small one morning opened a which lay upon his desk and found this sake the shell meeting house which looked sadly trivial and astray he entirely confused by its unexpected he did not to meet the eyes of an office boy who stood near was an uncomfortable feeling in his throat but m a letter from the and read it slowly without a understanding of the words � dear friend poor � i was very for all that you sent in the box � i take such 