pall-bearer at his own
funeral. But he was quite too gay for a pall-bearer. He and Agatha had
no end of fun at the wedding; she taking to herself all the credit for
having brought it about.

In the middle of the August following, Philip, having come to town from
Newport to attend to some affairs, found a notice from the custom-house
of a box marked with his address. He hated the trouble of going down
town to get it out of the hands of the United States. But when it was
opened he found on top a note from Millard explaining that he and
Phillida had chanced upon a complete set of "De Bry" at Quaritch's, and
that they thought it would be a suitable little present for their best
friend.

Philip closed the box and took it to Newport with him. He explained to
himself that he did this in order to get an opinion on the set from two
or three collectors whose acquaintance he had lately made in lounging
about the Redwood Library. But the fact was, his Newport season would
have been ruined had he left the volumes in town. The books were spread
out on his table, where they held a sort of levee; every book-fancier in
all Newport had to call and pay his respects to the rare volumes and to
the choice English bindings.

"A nice present that," said Philip's father, as he sipped his champagne
at dinner on the day after the son's return with the books. "I've been
looking them over; they must have cost, binding and all, a hundred
dollars, I should think, eh?"

"More than that," said Philip with a smile.

"About what?" demanded his father.

"Considering that the set includes both the Great and the Little
Voyages, it couldn't have cost less than twenty times your estimate,"
said Philip.

"Millard must be richer than I supposed," said the father. "A man ought
to have millions to make presents on that scale."

But after supper when Philip and his mother sat on the piazza she said:
"I never could tell how things were managed between Charley Millard and
Phillida. But since your books came I think I can guess who did it."

"Guess what you please, mother," he said, "I did improve my opportunity
once in my life."

THE END.

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