zigzag pass. With every turn and winding Katy's pleasure
grew; and when they rounded the last curve, and came in sight of the
little group of buildings, with their picturesque background of forest
and the splendid peak soaring above, she exclaimed with delight:--

"What a perfect situation! Clover, you never said enough about it!
Surely the half was not told me, as the Queen of Sheba remarked! Oh, and
there is Elsie on the porch, and that thing in white beside her is
Phillida! I never dreamed she could be so large! How glad I am that I
didn't die of measles when I was little, as dear Rose Red used to say."

Katy's coming was the crowning pleasure of the occasion to all, but most
of all to Clover. To have her most intimate sister in her own home, and
be able to see her every day and all day long, and consult and advise
and lay before her the hopes and intentions and desires of her heart,
which she could never so fully share with any one else, except Geoff,
was a delight which never lost its zest, and of which Clover never grew
weary.

To settle Dr. Carr in his new quarters was another pleasure, in which
they all took equal part. When his books and microscopes were unpacked,
and the Burnet belongings arranged pretty much in their old order, the
rooms looked wonderfully homelike, even to him. The children soon
learned to adore him, as children always had done; the only trouble was
that they fought for the possession of his knee, and would never
willingly have left him a moment for himself. His leisure had to be
protected by a series of nursery laws and penances, or he would never
have had any; but he said he liked the children better than the leisure.
He was born to be a grandfather; nobody told stories like him, or knew
so well how to please and pacify and hit the taste of little people.

But all this, of course, came subsequently to the double wedding, which
took place two days after the arrival of the home-party. The morning of
the twentieth was unusually fine, even for Colorado,--fair, cloudless,
and golden bright, as if ordered for the occasion,--without a cloud on
the sky from dawn to sunset. The ceremony was performed by a clergyman
from Portland, who with his invalid wife were settled in the Hutlet for
the summer, very glad of the pleasant little home offered them, and to
escape from the crowd and confusion of Mrs. Marsh's boarding-house,
where Geoff had found them. Two or three particular friends drove out
fro