y while Winn was unconscious of its lapse.

"I wish you would be more neighborly," she said, when he rose to go;
"there are so few men in my set whom I can speak to as freely as you,
and besides I want to watch your progress toward an editorial chair.
Forget your old grudge, and let us be good friends once more."

And when he was gone, and she ready to retire, she looked long and
earnestly at a photograph of him she had scarce glanced at thrice in
three years. "I wish he were rich," she sighed; "what a delightful lover
he would make!"

CHAPTER XXXVIII

THE END OF AN IDYL

Rockhaven, a colony by itself, had slowly increased from its one family
starting-point until more than two hundred called it home. In doing this
it had, to a certain extent, sustained the individuality of its
progenitor, Captain Carver; a strictly honest, God-fearing descendant of
the Puritans; Baptist in denomination, who regarded work and economy as
religious precepts, home building as a law of God, and strict morality
and total immersion the only avenues to salvation. Long before the
little church was built he gathered the few families about him each
Sunday, while he read selections and then led them in prayer. It was his
indomitable religious will, as well as money, that erected the small
church, and for years he led services there, praying that the time might
come, and population as well, sufficient to induce a regularly ordained
minister to officiate instead. It did, for he lived to a ripe old age
and the satisfaction of his hopes, and to be buried on the sloping
hillside back of it. Also to the glory of having "Founder of Rockhaven"
inscribed on his tombstone.

He was of Scotch descent, which accounted for a certain latent taste in
his great-granddaughter, Mona Hutton. Though stern as the granite cliffs
of the island in his religious connections, regarding works without
faith and morality, without conviction as of little value, the shadow of
his mantle in time gave way to a more charitable Christianity. And
though the offshoot of his church, the Free Will Baptist of Northaven,
was never recognized by the elect of Rockhaven, intermarriages and a
mutuality of interests reduced its separation in creed to one in name
only.

Then, too, the isolation of the island resulted in the growth of the
feudal instinct and a tacit leadership, vested in one man whose opinion
and advice was by common consent accepted as law and gospel, and to whom