is a place like it."

"I--I don't think I saw," said Helen, looking about her puzzled, for
they had passed nothing but a row of very modest homes. She looked at
him enquiringly, to find him leaning back, his eyes shut, and shaking
with laughter.

"Never mind. Don't hurt your eyes, child. There's nothing there. But
we've just passed my office, on the opposite side, and I saw from the
corner of my eye about a half-dozen people waiting for me, all in a bad
humour. It's just as well that I shouldn't get a better view of them.
Tut, tut, don't apologise. I don't want to hurry back. Patience is a
virtue every man should practise, and I believe in giving my clients a
whack at it whenever I can. There's the Manse. I've heard Dr. Leslie
speak of your father. We knew him by report if not personally. You'll
find Doctor Leslie a fine pastor. He'll make you feel at home."

He glanced back towards his office and laughed again. "I'm trying
to--well not exactly retire--but to ease off a bit on my business. And
I'm going to have a partner, the son of an old friend. Why, he came
part of the way on the boat with you."

"Oh, yes, the young man who took the terrible leap," she said. She did
not want to confess she had met him before.

"That's nothing for Rod!" laughed Lawyer Ed. "He'd jump twice that
distance. Ah, he's a great lad, is Roderick. He's going to make
another such man as his father, and that's about the highest praise I
can give him. Old Angus McRae--well you must meet him to know what
he's like. I believe I think more of Angus McRae--outside my own
immediate family--than of any living person, of course always excepting
Madame. Bless me! You haven't met her yet, of course?"

"Why, no, I don't think so. Who is she?"

"Madame, my dear Miss Murray, is the handsomest and cleverest and most
delightful young lady in all Canada or the United States. And she's
your Principal, so you may think yourself fortunate. You two girls
will have a grand time together."

Helen felt not a little relieved. A Principal who was a girl of about
her own age, and who was evidently possessed of so many charms, would
surely not be a formidable person to face on the dread to-morrow.

They had been steadily climbing the hills, under great low-branched
maples and elms, and past scented gardens. And now they pulled up in
front of a big square brick house set primly in a square lawn.

"Now, here's your boarding-house, my d