ohn is awfully good to me. He
couldn't be kinder if I were his own son."

"So you're content at last to stay at home and take what's given you?"

"Yes; I think I've settled down at last. Dear old Val said that the
lane would turn some time, and so it has. My luck's changed."

"I think I'd put it down to something better than that," said Queen
Mab, smiling. "Perhaps it is not all luck, but a little of yourself
that has changed."

Jack laughed again, but made no attempt to deny the truth of the
suggestion. Possibly he felt that what she said was right, and that
not only in his surroundings, but also in his own heart, had come at
last the long lane's turning.

THE END.

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